News 2022

The winner of The Catch 2022 is Michal Sládeček. He received a medal and valuable prizes at yesterday’s award ceremony in the new CESNET premises, attended by the association’s management. Michal got through all the challenges in the fastest time of 23 hours and 5 minutes. Inconsistent studying of the rules, when Michal thought he had only 24 hours to solve all the tasks, turned out to be a competitive advantage. Among the winners was Petr Vaněk, who participated in all six autumn editions of The Catch. He appreciated that the competition is improving. The tasks are interest

The competition part of The Catch is over, but some parts of it are still with us. Those who are interested can continue solving individual problems until our colleagues start preparing the next edition. And for those of you wondering how the other solvers progressed and thought, we have write-ups.

We have launched a new function which facilitates sign language interpretation within the ZOOM service. The pilot group of users from the Masaryk University Teiresiás Support Centre for Students with Special Needs successfully tested the service. When planning a meeting or webinar, the host selects sign language interpretation in the interpretation section. The interpreter is selected from a list or invited on an ad-hoc basis. At the beginning of the webinar or meeting, the host must start the interpretation feature. This enables a special window layout on the participants’ screen

The CERN International Research Laboratory has launched a new phase of data loading at the world’s largest accelerator, the LHC. Some of the vast amount of data produced by experiments at the LHC will continue to be processed through the CESNET optical science network during the new phase. Experiments at the LHC already deliver tens of petabytes per year. The data are processed in hundreds of computing centres distributed around the world. One of these is the CZ Tier-2 centre, centred at the Institute of Physics of the CAS. More in our new report.

CESNET as the local host coordinates the organization of the e-IRG Workshop under the Czech EU Presidency. The workshop takes place from December 12th to 13th in Prague. The workshop is focused on four main topics: coordination and collaboration among European e-infrastructures – the e-IRG White Paper 2022, energy crisis and e-infrastructures, data infrastructures and data spaces, interlinking – interaction between data, publications, and PIDs. Program and registration here.

CONNECT magazine, published by GÉANT, the association of European national networks for research and education, has published an interview with Jan Gruntorád, founder and long-time former director of CESNET. The interview is part of a series of articles on Internet pioneers who, among other things, have contributed to the development of the pan-European GÉANT community. Jan Gruntorád talks about how he initiated the connection of our country to the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) in the early 1990s, but also about the important role played by CESNET in