Kategorie: ‘Projects & Cooperations’
Put me There: Teleportation in VR
Source: Put Me There Project
Virtual reality (VR) has developed into a promising technology that opens up new ways for people to interact with digital content. By putting on VR glasses, users are immersed in a virtual 3D environment that they can explore through natural body movements and direct interaction with their hands. In addition to games, VR is already being used successfully in a variety of ways, for example to train new skills, support medical procedures, preserve cultural heritage and evaluate architectural designs, to name just a few of the different areas of application.
However, most virtual environments in the various application areas are larger than the physical area in which a user can move around with VR glasses. Therefore, navigation techniques that move the user’s position through the environment purely virtually are crucial to enable unrestricted exploration.
Women in IT: FEMTEC Career-Building Program
Source: FEMTEC
Welcome to the third post in our blog series about women in IT. In the first post, we looked at the challenges women face in the tech industry and how they successfully overcome them. The second post was dedicated to the success stories of historical and modern women who have made significant contributions to the IT field. Today we present the FEMTEC Career-Building Program, which prepares female STEM students at RWTH Aachen University for challenging careers in business and science.
Overleaf at RWTH Aachen University
Source: Overleaf
On 6 February 2024, Overleaf officially went into regular operation at RWTH Aachen University. Thanks to the cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), employees with active status at RWTH Aachen now have access to a powerful, web-based LaTeX platform that is revolutionising the creation of scientific documents. This introduction marks a significant step towards more efficient and collaborative research and teaching.
New Milestone Reached – RWTHgpt
Source: IT Center and CLS
It’s done: Since July 16, 2024, RWTH Aachen University has been one of the first universities in Germany to offer a new service – RWTHgpt. This makes RWTH one of the pioneers in the university-wide use of artificial intelligence. In this article, we introduce you to the new AI tool, which is being developed and made available by the IT Center in cooperation with the Center for Teaching and Learning Services (CLS).
IT Center – We Are in Girona for You!
Source: Own Illustration
Dell’s Customer Advisory Council (CAC) was once again held this year for Dell customers from all over Europe. This time, our colleague Peter Watzlawik, who is responsible for client tenders, travelled to Girona, Spain, from June 5 to June 7. On behalf of the IT Center and the “Service and Communication” department, he provided support with questions, new incentives and ideas for constantly improving collaboration.
He has summarised the exciting impressions he gathered at the event for us below.
ZKI – From Project to Working Group
Source: Pixabay
As a partner, the IT Center actively supports the design of digitalisation processes at RWTH Aachen University. This also includes the use of cloud services and the correspondingly increasing needs of teaching staff, researchers and students at RWTH Aachen University. The flexibility and scalability of cloud services can be a means of meeting the ever more rapidly changing IT requirements of users.
Review: The ACI User Group Conference at the IT Center
Source: Own illustration
On June 19 and 20, 2024, the IT Center at RWTH Aachen University hosted the ACI User Group Conference. Colleagues from Cisco and other partners from science and industry were also present. IT Center colleagues Benedikt Paffen and Philipp Tomazin moderated the conference and were available to answer questions.
In the spirit of network automation, presentations were given on various topics and lively discussions and feedback sessions were held. We present a review of the event in the following blog post.
ZKI “Training” Working Group in Wolfenbüttel
Source: Own Illustration
The ZKI working group “Training” has invited to a joint meeting in Wolfenbüttel from May 14 to 16, 2024. As trainers in the Service and Communication department at the IT Center, we were of course there to exchange ideas with 10 other universities from all over Germany.
We dealt with the following questions, among others:
“How does training work at other universities? What is the recruitment and induction process like? What do modern job interviews look like for us?
The Importance of Open Source Software
Source: Freepik
Open source software (OSS) has become a cornerstone of modern IT and plays a crucial role in the development of technology and software. Open source code enables innovation, flexibility and cost efficiency.
But what exactly is open source software and why is it so important?
HPC: Shutdown of the Windows Front End
Source: Freepik
The IT Center has been operating one of the fastest high-performance computers in Germany for years. The current high-performance computer CLAIX-2023 was recently put into operation with state-of-the-art technology such as Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors and NVIDIA H100 accelerators. This enables the execution of a wide range of applications from engineering to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
