Karolina (EuroHPC AI Factory)
EuroHPCEuroHPC petascale supercomputer hosted by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, Czechia, operational since 2021. Its GPU partition provides 576 NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs (4 per node, NVLink). The KarolAIna AI Factory upgrade builds on this system for the Czech national AI Factory.
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- EU-provided+25/25
- EU-hosted+15/15
- CLOUD Act exposure: none+20/20
- GDPR DPA: unknown+0/10
- Certifications (0)+0/20
- No foreign control+10/10
Sovereignty & control
- EU-provided
- Yes
- EU-hosted
- Yes
- CLOUD Act
- None
- GDPR DPA
- Unknown
- Control status
- No foreign control
- Ultimate parent
- EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
- Data residency
- CZ
- Certifications
- None cited
Control: Karolina is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and hosted by IT4Innovations, part of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, a Czech public university. No non-EU/EEA corporate parent involved.
Ownership: Same EU-joint-undertaking governance caveat as other EuroHPC entries in this batch; flagged for owner review of the "no-foreign-control" mapping.
Note: 35% of Karolina's capacity is reserved for EuroHPC JU call projects; the remainder is allocated via Czech national/EuroCC calls. Not commercial self-service.
- Egress
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Regions & residency
Offerings
| GPU | Config | Regions | €/GPU·h | Availability | Sov. | Verified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB 40 GB | — · Batch | 🇨🇿 CZ | Grant access | On request | 70 | 2026-07-08 |
Sources
- Official Docswww.it4i.cz/en/infrastructure/karolina8 Jul 2026
- Pressczechsemiconductorcentre.cz/the-czech-republic-has-its-own-ai-factory-including-a-new-ai-supercomputer8 Jul 2026