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.
Changed Opening Hours During Christmas and New Year
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Christmas is just around the corner and the year is ending. The IT Center will therefore have adjusted opening hours between Christmas and the beginning of January. Read the rest of this entry »
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 gathered at SC 2023 this year. The HPC Group from the IT Centre was also there with six participants.
Raffle – IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2023
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Today our raffle for the IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2023 took place.
Once again this year, 15 “Schenk Lokal Aachen” gift vouchers worth EUR 15 each were raffled off.
De Supinski: El Capitan – Exascale System
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Recently, we had the honour of experiencing a remarkable talk by Bronis R. de Supinski, the CTO of Livermore Computing, who dove deep into the design and insights behind the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the United States Department of Energy) Exascale System, El Capitan.
Changed Opening Hours – December 8, 2023
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Due to an internal event, the IT Center will only be open for you during limited opening hours on Friday, December 8, 2023. Read the rest of this entry »
ZKI Autumn Conference 2023 in Dresden
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From September 11 to 13, 2023, the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) of the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) and the ZKI e.V. invited to the ZKI Autumn Conference 2023. Under the title “Data Management and Artificial Intelligence: On Challenges of the Future”, the event took place in the lecture hall center of the TU Dresden. The approximately 350 participants were treated to an extensive program with exciting presentations on current university-related issues, requirements and solutions. The IT Center was also there – represented both by participants and by Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Dr. Thomas Eifert with a presentation.
Internship Abroad in Malta
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Our apprentice, Yasin Kalem, who has already given us an insight into DiMa apprenticeship in the past, was able to complete an internship abroad in Malta as part of the apprenticeship and Erasmus+ program. He spent a total of five weeks on the Maltese islands, where he worked as a “Business Development Manager” at the esports academy “Level Academy Malta”.
He has summarized everything he experienced there for us.
