CERIT-SC is a research infrastructure providing flexible computing capacity and data storage to the scientific community. It is based on 3 pillars – sufficiently extensive hardware, targeted research in selected areas of informatics and long-term cooperation with users.The objectives of this project are to move the center to the technological top (by investing in hardware) and strengthen research in critical areas of large data and intensive calculations, i.e. know-how needed for efficient use of hardware resources.