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IDM.nrw – First Milestone in the Implementation Project
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The project Federated Identity Management.nrw (IDM.nrw) aims to implement a federated Identity Management (FIDM). The federation of the local IDM systems of the institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia should enable users to access the services of various universities at any time and from anywhere with just one account.
The IT Center of RWTH Aachen University is in charge of pursuing this goal together with the consortium partners Ruhr University Bochum, University of Duisburg-Essen and Aachen University of Applied Sciences. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy New Year – Not the same procedure as last year!
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Do you also have good resolutions for the new year?
According to Statista, the most popular New Year’s resolutions for 2022 include: exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, living more frugally and spending more time with family and friends. Setting New Year’s resolutions is probably something all of us know. However, keeping one’s resolutions is not always the easiest thing to do. Usually, after a few weeks, the stress of everyday life has taken hold of us again, we juggle between home office and sports, we get stuck in our old habits again.
Not with us! We have put together a few tips on how you can achieve your resolutions and stay healthy at the same time.
The Year 2021 in Review – IT Center Blog Edition
Have a great start to the new year 2022!
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It’s hard to believe: December is already drawing to a close and a new year is practically in sight. We also take a look back and take you with us as we review the year 2021… Read the rest of this entry »
IT Center participation in the MyScore project
Source: Kim Hoffmann
As the central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University, the IT Center is participating in the RWTH project Mobility System Cooperation in Higher Education, MyScore for short. The MyScore project, which started in 2019 and is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aims to shape the digitalisation of international university cooperation and student mobility of tomorrow.
Data backup made easy
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With the year 2021 nearing its end, a whole new year full of possibilities is about to begin. Once again, the time has come for some good resolutions. This year has clearly shown us how essential a good IT infrastructure is. Day after day, huge amounts of data are created, processed and shared, both privately and professionally. But what if this data unexpectedly disappears? While many people may be aware of the danger of data loss, only a few actively take precautions to protect their data from such a loss in a private context. Frequent backups aim to prevent data loss and are an essential aspect of IT security.
Onboarding – Digital and with heart
Sarah und Philipp in interview
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On board in the CSE department
Philipp and Sarah support the Computational Science & Engineering department of the IT Center, or CSE in short. In this interview, they tell us how they experienced their first time at the IT Center, how the digital onboarding went and what tasks their job entails. Read the rest of this entry »
aiXcelerate 2021 – I/O and Machine Learning in Spotlight
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aiXcelerate is an annual tuning workshop for HPC users. It comprises lectures that are open for everyone, and hands-on parts where registered groups apply the learnt concepts to their own codes. Every year, we focus on different hot topics. This year, on December 6th to 9th, aiXcelerate focused on performance tuning for I/O-intensive workloads and machine-learning applications. Due to the ongoing pandemic, aiXcelerate took place in an online format. Presentations were done live via Zoom and questions and discussions were fostered using a dedicated Slack channel. We attracted more than 20 participants every day.
Here’s something for your ears – recommendations for IT podcasts
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Podcasts are all the rage – they come in all variations and lengths, short or long, and on all kinds of topics. Whether on the road in the car, on the train, on foot or at home. In short or long episodes, we get news, background information or a casual chat or two quite simply on the ear in between. This is practical for being up to date on topics that interest us.
The Metadata Form – Migrate Archive Nodes via Metadata
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We know it too well ourselves from moves of all kinds: if we know what is contained in the boxes, it is much easier for us to decide whether we still want to keep certain contents or whether we can say goodbye to them. For this reason, we at least write on the box what is included and where it belongs.
The same goes for data that we want to archive, for example. We don’t have boxes available, but we can “label” the nodes to be archived with metadata. To do this, the appropriate node contacts receive a dedicated link to a metadata form about what exactly belongs to an archive node. What this is all about, you can read in this article.
Change of Opening Hours at the IT Center
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The Christmas holidays and the new year are approaching. Therefore, the opening hours of the IT Center will be changed. Read the rest of this entry »
