Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)

The GWDG is a common institution of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. It is the IT computer centre for the Georg-August-University Göttingen and a computer and IT competence centre for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and it provides a lot of services for the scientific data processing.

Especially the operation of high-performance computers (parallel computers), the provision of special systems and the care for the transmission network GÖNET, which connects the institutes of Göttingen, are part of the tasks of the GWDG. Via the GWDG the GÖNET is connected to the national science network X-WiN and the internet.

As an IT competence centre the GWDG advises and supports the associated institutes with regard to all questions concerning scientific data processing.

Contact

Am Faßberg 11
37077 Göttingen
Phone: +49 551 201-1510
Fax: +49 551 201-2150

https://www.gwdg.de/

Yearbook

Numerically intensive simulations on an integrated computing infrastructure

2017 Brücher, Martina⁽¹⁾; Ehlers, Tim⁽¹⁾; End, Vanessa⁽¹⁾; Köhler, Christian⁽¹⁾; Korte, Fabian⁽²⁾(1): Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen(2): Universität Göttingen, Institut für Informatik

Computer Science

Cloud services, high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, computers with special accelerator cards? The selection of the optimal application and computing resource is a success factor for scientific simulations. In view of the heterogeneous infrastructure of modern data centers, this is often tricky. Learning the technical details is time-consuming. The aim of the cooperation project launched in 2016 between GWDG and the Simulation Science Center Clausthal-Göttingen is to automate the selection and provision of the resource.

SharePoint as a platform for collaboration and publishing for the Max Planck Society

2016 Thies, Hans Henning; Buck, Christina

Computer Science

Since 2014 the GWDG has been operating a platform for collaboration and publishing for the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society using Microsoft SharePoint. In 2016 it was updated to the version “SharePoint 2016”, whereby great care was taken to ensure both smooth scalability as well as constant availability of the platform.

The new bioinformatics – one of the big challenges for scientific computing centres

2015 Bohrer, Rainer

Computer Science

Due to rapid technological progress bioinformatics becomes to be a key technology of molecular biology. Intensive statistical analysis of such high mounds of data requires considerable compute power and elaborate concepts of data handling like backup, storage and long-term archiving. Because local workgroups and IT divisions are mostly overstrained to carry this out, they need to be supported by computing centres. Internationalization of workflows in research projects requires encrypted pathways to transfer data and collaborating tools on save servers. A proven concept of support is given.

More self-service with the new GWDG customer portal

2014 Pohl, Christof

Computer Science

In summer 2014 the new GWDG customer portal has been put into productive operation. It provides information about the service portfolio as well as means to order and manage services for all customers at any time. Additionally, the customer portal contains advanced self-service functionalities and security enhancements for user accounts. In the future, it will be extended to serve as a central point of access for all GWDG services. Together with a new, clearly structured website concept the customer portal will be a strategic component of a modern user experience.

GWDG data management

2013 Schwardmann, Ulrich

Computer Science

Together with the growing importance and mass of scientific data in the research process the management of the life cycle of scientific data becomes more and more important. This holds for the emerging of the data, for experiment data as well as for simulations, to the presentation of the data and to its long term availability. There is a growing need for a registration of these resources in the repositories, where the data stays unchanged, becoming referable and citeable.