Kategorie: ‘IT-Managers’
New Availability Times at the IT-ServiceDesk
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To optimize accessibility and turnaround times, we are changing IT Service Desk hours from February 2024.
Pioneering Steps into the Future of AI
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Germany has taken significant steps in recent years to advance the development and application of artificial intelligence. The country’s AI action plan and digital strategy form the backbone of these efforts, setting out guidelines and measures to promote AI innovation.
The IT Center Prepares You for IT!
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Cluster security – MFA Now Mandatory
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In May 2020, several supercomputers in Europe were attacked by hackers. They used compromised accounts of users on external systems. To prevent such attacks, the introduction of multi-factor authentication on the HPC cluster is an important step.
Security Mechanisms Unravelled: MFA
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Multifactor-authentication (MFA) is a security method that enables access to digital resources such as devices, networks or online services by combining multiple authentication factors. Essentially, MFA requires at least two independent confirmations of a user’s identity to access the resource.
Social Engineering: Deception in Cyberspace
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In the world of cyber security, it’s not just technology that plays a crucial role. People are an equally important factor, and this is where social engineering comes in. This sophisticated method specifically exploits human behaviour and weaknesses to gain access to sensitive data or cause damage.
IT-Zauber: Efficient Data Centres
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The IT-Zauber project, funded by the BMBF as part of the nine joint research projects of the GreenHPC program, aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of data centres through digital twins. These digital images enable a holistic view of data centres by encompassing the entire operation including the computer load as well as the power supply and cooling infrastructure.
Sustainable Email Use: CO2 Impact
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After highlighting the environmental impact of emails in a previous article, we now take a closer look at the digital carbon footprint of digital activities, including email communication. In the previous article, we emphasized that although emails may seem more environmentally friendly than traditional letters at first glance, they still leave their own ecological footprint. We gave some tips on how to make your email traffic more environmentally friendly. But what is the actual environmental impact?
Successful SharePoint Migration
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The IT Center has been offering the fee-based SharePoint Shared Service for many years. The service addresses RWTH institutions and is a collaboration platform based on Microsoft SharePoint. It is operated on infrastructures in the IT Center. In addition, in-house developments are also created on this basis, which fall into the area of “process support for research and teaching”.
SharePoint has now been updated to a new version. We have summarized for you what this means and what has changed as a result.
SC 2023 in Denver: A Review
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Supercomputing (“SC”) is the largest international conference in the research field of high-performance computing. Here, researchers and industry partners from all over the world discuss current topics in high-performance computing. The conference takes place annually in the USA, this year under the motto “I Am HPC.” from 12 November to 17 November in Denver, Colorado. A total of 14,000 participants and 438 exhibitors came together this year. The HPC Group from the IT Centre was also there with six participants.
