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NHR4CES: High-Speed 4 Science

January 25th, 2023 | by
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Cards, posters, stickers and on social media: Everywhere you read the slogan “High-Speed 4 Science.” With this campaign, NHR4CES – National High Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Science – is drawing nationwide attention to its freely accessible service services.
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IT Center Annual Review 2022

January 18th, 2023 | by

 

Typewriter with a piece of paper on which Review is written on.

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Just a quick blink and 2022 is already over.
Now we are standing in the middle of the first chapter of 2023.
Last year was characterized by many changes, especially based on the motto “ away from online – towards presence”.

We are looking back at the past year and take you with us.

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The IT Center Picture Puzzle – Review and Preview

December 14th, 2022 | by
Summary of the picture puzzle carried out so far with solution words

Source: Own illustration

The year is coming to an end, and we would like to look back with you on our blog series The IT Center Picture Puzzle. Which departments were involved this year and what were the solution words? We would also like to give you a sneak preview of what will happen next year, because #SpoilerAlert: we will continue the series next year. But let’s start at the beginning…

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HPC@SC22 – On site again this year

November 28th, 2022 | by
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Source: SC22

With 10,700 attendees, 41 workshops, 28 tutorials, 57 research posters, and 86 Bird-of-a-Feather talks, the international conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis “SC22” was a resounding success. Read the rest of this entry »

RegApp – Start of the pilot phase on the cluster

November 2nd, 2022 | by
Login window with username and unrecognizable password

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Cluster users beware!

In preparation for higher security measures when logging in to the RWTH HPC Cluster, your HPC accounts will be switched to RegApp from 02. November 2022.

What is behind this and what will change for you?

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The IT Center Picture Puzzle: Systems and Operation Department

October 14th, 2022 | by
Interview photo with the Head of Department Systems & Operation

Source: Own illustration

#MeetMeWednesday: Recently we had another picture puzzle in store for you. In this puzzle, we were looking for the keyword for the Systems and Operation department. Could you guess it?

The word we were looking for was “gearwheel”. Georg Schramm, head of the department, tells us what it means and how this key word represents the department.

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NHR4CES – In a New Design

September 26th, 2022 | by
Visualization Network

Source: NHR4CES

 

In order to focus on the strengths of the collaboration between RWTH Aachen University and Darmstadt University of Technology and to put the goals of NHR4CES in the spotlight, a redesign of its website has been carried out over the last few months. We are very pleased to introduce you to this project and its website as well as the new features added in the process.

 

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Happy Programmer’s Day!

September 14th, 2022 | by
Woman who is programming

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On September 13, 2022, the world celebrates the annual International Programmer’s Day. In this blog post, we’ll tell you what this holiday is all about, which country it originated in, and how programming works at RWTH Aachen University.

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MUST
MPI Runtime Correctness Analysis

September 5th, 2022 | by
logo MUST

Source: Own illustration

High performance computing (HPC) is largely concerned with parallelizing programs, especially complex simulations such as models for weather forecasting or climate. To ensure that computations finish quickly, the work to be done is divided among different processes in parallel. Depending on the use case, the processes must exchange their intermediate results with other processes at program runtime.

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How to Use IT Center Help – a Guide for our Docuportal

August 12th, 2022 | by
Screenshot of the home page of IT Center Help

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As the central IT service provider of RWTH Aachen University, the IT Center offers numerous services for RWTH members. Whether right at the beginning when redeeming the ConnectMe coupon or for using W-Lan, VPN, Software & Co. – sooner or later everyone who studies or works at RWTH Aachen University uses the services we provide and may need support or have questions. For this reason, we maintain a detailed documentation portal with practical step-by-step instructions and information about IT Center Services: IT Center Help. Today we introduce you to our portal and give you helpful tips & tricks on how to use it. Read the rest of this entry »