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ISC High Performance 2021 Digital –
The largest virtual community meeting for hpc

July 14th, 2021 | by
Laptop, plant, cup and pad on a table.

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

July 13th, 2021 | by
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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 »

RWTHmoodle User Survey 2021

July 12th, 2021 | by
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This year’s RWTHmoodle user survey has already started on 07.07.2021. As in previous years, we are asking users who have been authorized and actively used at least one course room during the summer semester to participate. Your experiences with the system and your feedback are especially important to further improve RWTHmoodle and to adapt the support offer accordingly.

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Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle VII

July 9th, 2021 | by
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After a total of 38 exciting games, the final of this year’s European Championship will take place next Sunday, 11 July 2021. At 9 p.m., Italy and England will face off at London’s venerable Wembley Stadium.

For the last time, we will be keeping our fingers crossed and feverishly cheering. At the same time, the last IT Center EM 2021 riddle will take place – so take the chance and join in one last time! Read the rest of this entry »

User Satisfaction Survey 2020 – The Results are online!

July 8th, 2021 | by
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In October and November 2020, we conducted our annual user satisfaction survey, in which all customers were able to rate the IT Center’s services and support. We also requested suggestions for improvements and – due to the special situation – asked questions about the IT Center’s handling of the Corona situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Onboarding – digitally and with heart

July 7th, 2021 | by

 

New employees in home office

Smiling people in digital meeting with head sets.

Digital onboarding together and with heart.
Source: Own illustration

The IT Center is a central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University that supports the university’s core processes and provides IT services. Regardless of whether a service is provided specifically for a single customer or in the same way for many customers, corresponding processes must be developed or analysed and optimised. The customers and users of the (IT-)services provided by the IT Center include not only students, employees and institutions of RWTH Aachen University, but also other universities and external research institutions and companies. Digitization, cloud, high-performance computing, 5G and the associated IT infrastructure – the developments in the IT industry are unstoppable. In order to drive these developments forward in the long term, the IT Centre is constantly on the lookout for new employees. Read the rest of this entry »

Eight NFDI consortia with RWTH participation are funded by the DFG!

July 6th, 2021 | by
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We celebrate the approval of funding for eight consortia with RWTH participation!

As recently announced by the Joint Science Conference (GWK), a total of ten consortia will be funded. Eight of them have RWTH participation. The funding decision was science-led by the GWK.

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The people behind RWTHjupyter – a developer interview

July 5th, 2021 | by
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Welcome to RWTHjupyter!
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At the beginning of the year, we announced that the RWTHjupyter service had entered the pilot phase. The goal is to ensure a stable process in the subsequent regular operation by building up experience, taking over operations and setting up support structures.

But have you ever wondered who are the people behind RWTHjupyter that have made it this far?

Today we introduce you to one of the developers: Steffen Vogel works as a research associate at the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) and has been there from the beginning. We were allowed to interview him about the development of RWTHjupyter.

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Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EM 2021 Riddle VI

July 2nd, 2021 | by
Soccer on grass

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After several overtimes, surprising results and the farewell of our national coach Jogi Löw, the quarter-final opponents are now known, and the final is already within reach.

Even though the German team was already eliminated from the tournament on Tuesday, we are still looking forward to the exciting matches in the quarter-finals today and tomorrow!

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Digital Summer Party 2021

July 1st, 2021 | by
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The IT Center did not let itself be deprived of the annual and popular summer party, even in spite of the home office!  So, on June 25, in a relaxed atmosphere, a social gathering was also made possible digitally.

The party team of the IT Center opened the summer party with a few words about the schedule. Professor Müller also took the opportunity to welcome all employees and to thank the party team.

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