Kategorie: ‘Announcements’
A high-performance alliance
Association for National High Performance Computing founded
The representatives of the founding members (from left to right): Dr. Thorsten Reimann, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, Prof. Wolfgang Nagel, Prof. Ramin Yahyapour, Prof. Christof Schütte, Prof. Martin Frank, Prof. Christian Plessl, Prof. Matthias S. Müller
Source: NHR-Verein
On August 23, 2021, eight computing centers of universities or university alliances came together and founded the Association for National High Performance Computing – NHR-Verein e. V..
The association ensures coordination among each other and the supra-regional, sustainable and resource-efficient use of computing capacity and expertise. The foundation of the association focuses on the achievement of essential goals in National High Performance Computing (NHR).
Would You Like a Little Touch Up? – RWTHmoodle is Now in the Version 3.11
Source: RWTHmoodle
Like every year, we gave RWTHmoodle a little touch up this summer: On August 25, the teaching and learning platform was updated to version 3.11.
This update comes with some visual and functional innovations for the users.
The GitLab Project LifeCycle goes into the second round
Source: Pixabay
GitLab is used at RWTH Aachen University with pleasure and actively. However, after projects have been processed, a lot of data often accumulates that is no longer used. To prevent a mountain of data waste from piling up in GitLab, a Project LifeCycle for RWTH was designed and introduced at the IT Center. In March 2021, it went live.
In the first few weeks, we received a number of suggestions and requests for adjustments to the process from users. So that these could be examined in detail by the responsible department, the GitLab Project LifeCycle was paused for the time being.
The review and revision phase has now been completed. In this article, we present the adjustments made with the help of the feedback.
One Platform – All Events!
The IT Center Event Site
Source: Own illustration
The IT Center, as the central IT service provider of RWTH Aachen University, offers a number of continuing education and information events. Unfortunately, since last year, due to COVID-19, barely any events can take place or have been replaced by an online format. We used the time gained by this to build a brand new, clearly arranged website for you, which informs you at a glance about all events around the IT Center.
The IT-ServiceDesk is reopening for personal support!
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We can finally welcome you in person again! Our IT ServiceDesk is reopening and you can get our assistance directly on site. Read the rest of this entry »
ISC High Performance 2021 Digital –
The largest virtual community meeting for hpc
Live at ISC21
Source: Own illustration
This year, the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) was once again held digitally from June 24 to July 2, 2021. With more than 3,500 attendees and exhibiting companies, this year’s ISC 2021 Digital is the largest virtual community gathering for High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML) and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA). Read the rest of this entry »
New layout for PasswordReset
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Who does not know it? With all the passwords and usernames you have to remember, it can easily happen that you suddenly can’t remember anything when logging in.
Fortunately, this is not a problem at all because there is the possibility to set a new password before logging into the RWTH Single Sign-On or to have the username sent to you. After logging into the RWTH Single Sign-On account, you can then set passwords for all other services in IdM Selfservice. Read the rest of this entry »
Time to say goodbye, L2P!
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The time has come: After 14 years, it is with a heavy heart that we say our final goodbyes to L2P.
Until 2019, L2P was the central teaching and learning platform at RWTH Aachen University. In the course of “Digitalization Strategy for Teaching” it was decided to switch to Moodle as an open source software. After a successful test and pilot phase, RWTHmoodle was implemented into university-wide operation in the summer semester 2019 and since then L2P has only served as an archive. Read the rest of this entry »
#moodletrouble² – The chronology of a malfunction
Source: Pixabay
As some of you may have noticed, RWTHmoodle was unavailable to RWTH Aachen University employees and students for a total of two days in the second week of June 2021. As we already reported on our channels during the malfunction, a serious database error was the cause. We would like to take this opportunity to briefly explain how this error occurred. Read the rest of this entry »
Restricted opening hours of IT-ServiceDesk on 25.06.2021
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Due to an internal event, the opening hours of the IT-ServiceDesk will be restricted on Friday, June 25th 2021.
How you can reach us on this day
By phone from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm:
You can reach us easily and reliably by phone via the number +49 241/80-24680.
By chat from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm:
The “Chat Support” button can be found at the bottom left of our website and leads you directly to us. You can also find this feature in IT-Center Help, on RWTHmoodle and in the RWTHApp (Facilities -> IT-ServiceDesk).
By e-mail:
You can also contact us by e-mail at servicedesk@itc.rwth-aachen.de.
The appointments for the submission of DFN certificate applications remain unaffected by the changes.
Thank you for your understanding. From Monday, June 28th 2021, we will be available again at our usual opening hours.
Responsible for the content of this article is Stéphanie Bauens.
