Das Tier-1 Zentrum des Worldwide LHC Computing GridKa baut massiv seinen Speicherplatz aus. Es stehen weitere neu installierte 71 Petabyte Onlinespeicher zur Verfügung. Die Datenmigration ist nun für fast alle Experimente abgeschlossen.

The new SCC News is online, including these topics: Helmholtz-Cloud – interconnected IT services for cutting-edge research; Carbon-free combustion: A look into the future; Mentoring program for female STEM Students – Warp4IT

After a successful pilot operation, the SCC has now set up the IT infrastructure for central version management with GitLab. The service "GitLab at KIT" can be used by all employees and students at KIT from the beginning of July 2023.

Propulate is a software that solves very general optimization problems using genetic algorithms. It is specifically designed for high-performance systems, easy to use and publicly available.

As part of an internal KIT project to establish Research Software Engineering (RSE) at KIT, people interested in RSE meet for the first RSE workshop. More than 60 people participated in the afternoon of May 9, 2023.

As part of the gradual upgrade of the SAP system environment, the SAP ERP database is migrated to HANA

Reciting a rhyme about crown and digital methods, the project "Materialized Holiness" achieved 1st place in the poster slam at the 9th conference of the association "Digital Humanities in the German-speaking world" in Trier.

A team of SCC scientists won an award for the best poster at the Materials Research Data Alliance Annual Meeting conducted from 21.02.23 to 23.02.23.

From the end of March, new additional functions will be available in the User Portal (UP) for SAP applications

14 Members of the SCC research groups CSMM, FiNE, RAI and SSPE attended the SIAM CSE conference in Amsterdam. The event was a huge success for both groups, with many interesting talks and interdisciplinary interactions taking place.

Thorsten Zirwes, a scientist at SCC, received the Distinguished Paper Award from the Combustion Institute for his collaboration on laminar flame research.

The new international online journal ing.grid is now accepting submissions addressing FAIR data management in engineering sciences. The interdisciplinary editorial team is looking forward to your contributions.

DFN-PKI will stop issuing server certificates at the end of the year. Therefore, new procedures for certificate issuance have to be implemented at KIT.

The EOSC symposium 2022 shows progress and readiness of the European Open Science Cloud and contributions from SCC.

Thorsten Zirwes, scientist at SCC, receives the Blanc & Fischer Innovation Award at the yearly meeting of the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.

As in the previous year, Helmholtz AI researchers joined a benchmarking study to analyze the center’s position in the computing infrastructure market — and the results are finally out!

EOSC-Pillar held its final conference last October in the Bibliothèque National de France François-Mitterrand in Paris an comes December 31 2022 to it's end.

The User Portal (UP) for SAP applications is now available to all KIT employees. UP is the next version of the current SAP web portal and is based on the new concepts and technologies of SAP.

For more than two years, the SCC has been operating dedicated AI resources for AI research within the Helmholtz Association, HAICORE@KIT for short. A new operating model now simplifies access even further and increases capacities.

On October 15, 2022, the new Matrix service will be launched at KIT. It supports secure, encrypted real-time communication in a simple way. Users can send text messages and audio or video calls can be made.

TT-Prof. Krumscheid leads the newly established junior research group Uncertainty Quantification (UQ). It develops modern mathematical and numerical techniques for the treatment and quantification of uncertainties in complex computational models.

On Sept. 1, a new AI junior research group starts under the leadership of Dr. Charlotte Debus, further expanding AI research at SCC. The group emerges from the successfully acquired BMBF project EQUIPE, which is funded over 3 years.

The new SCC News is online, including these topics: With “Future Technologies” to the HPC systems of tomorrow; Of Crowned Letters and Metaphorical Words; First AI-HERO Hackathon on Energy Efficient AI.

Pupils conduct research in teams using mathematical methods and computers to address research questions from companies and university institutes. On August 26, 2022, they will present their results at the North Campus.

Thorsten Zirwes, a scientist at SCC, receives the Bernard Lewis Fellowship at the 39th International Symposium on Combustion.

A small but visible change in the antivirus service "Virus protection at KIT

On 7/22, the SCC celebrated the 20-year success story of GridKa. The hardware and software of the data and analysis center for particle and astroparticle physics has been continuously expanded and adapted over the years.

New service: Starting August 1, 2022, KIT students can borrow laptops from SCC-TechPoint.

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What do crowns on Hebrew letters connect with research data management?

Thorsten Zirwes, a scientist at SCC, successfully applied for the DAAD Prime Fellowship. He conducts research currently at Stanford University in California on energy conversion processes in porous media.

Rached Chaaben from Tunisia, who is completing his master's degree with an internship abroad, and Stefano Maurogiovanni, an ERASMUS+ intern from the EuroHPC partner university Pavia in Italy, talk about their first impressions at SCC in this interview.

The new NVIDIA-Arm cluster joins an ever-growing number of development systems for future technologies.

The dpa photographer Uli Deck from Karlsruhe succeeded particularly well in staging the LED illumination of the new supercomputer HoreKa at KIT. The photo receives a 1st place in the competition "dpa Pictures of the Year 2021".

Seven successful projects in the second NHR@KIT Call for Collaboration

The systems of the instant messaging service based on XMPP (Jabber) will be switched off on 1 July 2022.

The new SCC News is online, including these topics: Operating models for IT end-user devices; bwNET2020+ to Drive Network Architecture Innovations; Video conferencing and online voting for committees and KIT institutions.

With the oidc-agent software developed by SCC, OpenID connect tools are available on the command line under Debian Linux.

From mid-January 2022, TechniData IT-Service GmbH will support end-user devices at KIT. This makes it easier to deal with a temporary high workload in the organizational units.

National High Performance Computing Center NHR@KIT first operator in Germany to give researchers access to an IPU-POD16 system.

Wie soll man religiöse Erfahrungen beschreiben oder gar erklären, wenn ihr ultimativer Gegenstand – das Transzendente – niemals wörtlich artikuliert werden kann?

Researchers and Helmholtz AI members from the SCC and the Jülich Supercomputing Center have jointly submitted their results from a competitive initiative using the HPC benchmarking software MLPerf™ to the Supercomputing Conference 21.

Possibility for collaborative projects within the framework of NHR@KIT

The National High Performance Computing Network (NHR Network) has founded its own graduate school. The NHR Center at KIT, NHR@KIT, is also participating.

With the KIT-WLAN@Home service, KIT employees also receive the campus WLAN at home. For this purpose, they receive a special Remote Access Point (RAP), a device configured by the SCC.

Talented children can apply for the funding programme until 20 October 2021.

The IPv6 rollout at KIT is completed. At KIT, all users of the IT infrastructure are provided with IPv6.

The new SCC News is online, including these topics: Software Suite provides opportunistic Resources; Materials Science Workflows made easy; Research Software Engineering in Education and Advanced Training.

KIT/SCC, FZJ, DKFZ and University of Duisburg/Essen develop a self-adapting variant of dynamic particle swarm optimization of biomolecule simulations - Paper published in nature machine intelligence.

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Fritz Haber Institute Berlin and SCC are developing a novel intelligent battery management system in the i2Batman project that optimizes charging cycles based on an AI and a digital twin of the battery.

NFDI-MatWerk: Networked research data infrastructure for materials science receives five-year funding within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

From July 2021, the new KIT-IoT WLAN with WPA-PSK and individual key per device will be available for IoT devices at KIT.

The Karlsruhe HoreKa high-performance computer is one of the fastest computers in Europe. On the TOP500 list, the HPC system is ranked 52nd. In terms of energy efficiency, it is in an excellent 13th place in the international ranking.

New supercomputer goes into operation for research purposes after succesful pilot phase

Druva Insync, the tool for backing up data on mobile devices, has been disabled. IBM Spectrum Protect can be used as an alternative.

Possibility for collaborative projects within the framework of NHR@KIT

The Helmholtz Association honors Achim Streit for his continuous involvement in the Helmholtz Incubator - an initiative to bring together and further develop the community's expertise in the thematic field of Information & Data Science.

Girls' Day took place digitally this year. 25 schoolgirls from all over Germany participated in the workshop "Data of today - Medicine of tomorrow" offered by IAI and SCC staff.

Startup of HoreKa also marks the beginning of the shutdown of predecessor ForHLR II

Hartwig Anzt, head of the Helmholtz junior research group FiNE, presents first experiences in software porting for Intel Xe GPUs.

PostgreSQL will complement the range of database systems at KIT. From March 2021, employees will be able to use this new service.

Das SCC betreibt ein Videokonferenzsystem auf Basis von BigBlueButton, das eine sichere Online-Kommunikation bietet. Ab Mitte Dezember 2021 steht der Dienst auch für Einrichtungen und Fakultäten des KIT allgemein zur Verfügung.

The new SCC-News edition is online, including these topics: Competence in AI research – The Helmholtz AI Consultant Team at SCC; Towards new challenges: Let’s go Quantum; Application and System Monitoring for SAP Systems.

From 1.3.2021, the EU will fund the “NFFA (Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis) Europe Pilot” (NEP) project for a period of five years. At KIT, the SCC and the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMFi) are involved.

SCC operates a video conferencing system based on BigBlueButton that provides secure online communication for KIT committees but will also be available for KIT institutions and faculties in general in the near future.

Millions of Euros in Funding for Future Supercomputers at the SCC of KIT - Researchers throughout Germany can use enormous computing power from Karlsruhe.

With JupyterLab, KIT researchers can now very easily interact with the SCC's high-performance computers directly from any workstation using a web browser. This also opens up new possibilities for courses.

In order to limit the strong spread of the corona virus, the SCC asks KIT students and employees to use the presence services only in urgent cases.

The Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS) confirms the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group "Fixed-Point Methods for Numerics at Exascale" (FiNE) "outstanding success" for its research work.

The HelmholtzAI Local Energy Consulting Team is as of October 1st running at full power. The team is now supporting AI applications in energy research and beyond.

The new SCC-News edition is online, including these topics: Online Teaching and Home Office at KIT; Business Process Automation with MS Orchestrator; Peer Review 2.0

A large-scale IT security incident forced many operators, including the KIT, to take their HPC system offline in mid-May. With the introduction of a 2-factor authentication scheme the systems can now be made available without restrictions again.

During the school holidays in Baden-Württemberg, the hours of service of the SCC Service Desk change. The telephone is answered from 8:00 - 16:30, the counters are staffed from 9:00 - 16:30.

The SCC provides the KIT organizational units and their support teams with the SCC ticket system to support their own support processes for efficient and convenient request processing.

Services that require the presence of persons or the appearance on site are back in operation. In both campus sites, south and north, the buildings are open again to the public.

To ensure that researchers of the Helmholtz Association continue to be at the forefront of AI and machine learning development, KIT is now the first location in Europe to commission state-of-the-art NVIDIA DGX A100 AI systems.

The Helmholtz Junior Research Group "Fixed-Point Methods for Numerics at Exascale" has been included in the US Exascale Computing Project and receives research funding of more than one million Euro until 2022.

The first nine National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) consortia have now been announced. KIT is involved in three consortia. SCC will take over tasks in the NFDI for chemistry and engineering sciences.

Missing a lot of conferences on research software engineering this year? You've come to the right SORSE, be part of it – and participate or contribute to our series of weekly events.

Great joy in knowledge research: The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has approved the renewed extension of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 980.

For the central administration of files and directories, the SCC previously used the Apache Subversion (SVN) software. But the trend is moving towards Git & Co. SCC offers a GitLab instance and will shut down the SVN server at the end of June 2020.

Critical security problems in the mail app for iPhone and iPad detected! An official warning has been issued. BSI considers the vulnerabilities to be "especially critical".

In fall 2020, KIT will make available the 1st stage of a new supercomputer for many scientific fields. The full system will be handed over to the scientific communities by summer 2021. The procurement that has now been signed is in the order of 15 mio. €

The SCC provides the web application Jitsi Meet for conducting oral examinations via video conference. In conjunction with an examination administration system, a virtual examination room is made available to examiners on the examination date.

During the existing corona protection measures, the SCC provides remote access to the centrally managed pool computers. This functionality created by the bwLehrpool team is now also used at KIT.

First results from the survey on open science and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) have been presented in a webinar.

The central e-mail service at KIT was converted to Microsoft Exchange 2019. With the renewed software and hardware, the SCC offers all employees and students an up-to-date communication platform with extended storage capacity.

All students at KIT will be able to use the customer interface of the SCC ticket system to submit user requests regarding central IT services of SCC.

Resources of the Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe and the HPC systems of KIT support the distributed computing projects Folding@Home and Rosetta@home, which help to improve the understanding of proteins, including those of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The service for the exchange of files between various users in Baden-Württemberg "bwSync&Share" is converted. The previous basic software Powerfolder is replaced by Nextcloud.

In order to limit the spread of COVID-19, the SCC is closing its buildings to the public. Various services that require the presence of people or their presence on site are severely restricted.

The EU project EOSC-Synergy together with the project partners has launched a cloud computing service based on Galaxy to facilitate researchers' access to data sets relevant to the ongoing research on COVID-19.

On 03 March 2020 the KickOff Workshop of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Platform (HMC) took place in Berlin. At KIT, SCC and the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) are involved in the development of the platform.

The SCC provides services and tools to enable mobile work.

In mid-April 2020, the HPC system "Research High-Performance Computer Phase I" (ForHLR I for short) will be shut down after more than five years of operation.

Due to the corona epidemic, events in science and research are also cancelled to protect the health of participants and the local population. An alternative for online events is the service DFNConf.

As part of the Initiative for High Performance Computing, Data Intensive Computing and Large Scale Scientific Data Management in Baden-Württemberg (bwHPC) the SCC will put the new parallel computer system bwUniCluster 2.0 into operation 17.03.2020.

The easy-to-use, collaborative, online LaTeX editor Overleaf has been available to all KIT staff and students in the new KIT Overleaf Portal since December 2019.

Get to know our IT centre. Meet us. Have a drink. Start your career.

Die neue SCC-News u. a. mit diesen Themen: IT-Landkarte der KIT-Software-Anwendungen; DEEP Hybrid DataCloud; MathSEE Modeling Week.

In the podcast "Let's talk Exascale" of the American Exascale-portal exascaleproject.org Hartwig Anzt, head of the Helmholtz junior research group FiNE, talks about the Ginkgo software and the visionary research on multiprecision algorithms.

Viele Clients unterschiedlicher Betriebssysteme erlauben den Zugriff auf Speicherdaten über HTTPS/WebDAV. Ab sofort sind auch die Daten des Dienstes LSDF Online Storage über HTTPS/WebDAV verfügbar.

From 17 to 26 October 2019, representatives of the CAMMP and KOMMS projects introduced students of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana/Mexico into solving problems using mathematical modelling.

In an American competition on chemical databases, an innovation team from KIT has won a prize with the idea of a synthetic chemistry portal as an information system for storing, sharing, searching and analyzing chemical data.

KIT participated in the European Cybersecurity Month 2019 with an information booth and up-to-date materials. The focus was on practical tips for IT security and the detection of fraudulent messages as well as the secure handling of these.

The SCC welcomes first semester students. SCC presented itself during the orientation phase and the welcome ceremony as a central scientific institution as well as the IT service provider at KIT.

Den Erna-Scheffler-Förderpreis 2019 für eine Masterarbeit erhält die Physikerin Marie Weiel-Potyagaylo für ihre am SCC verfasste Arbeit mit dem Titel „Integration of SAXS Data into Biomolecular Simulations“.

The EOSC Synergy project to expand the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) started in Spain at the end of September.

The ZKI working group IT Service Management organized a kick-off workshop at SCC on the topic of public relations. 20 German universities took part, each with one person responsible for public relations at the IT Service Centre.

Mario Brandenburg (MdB) was a guest at the KIT on August 1. He took advantage of the time off in Parliament to exchange views with companies and research institutions in and around his constituency of Southern Palatinate.

The policies of the service for securing mobile devices with the tool "Druva inSync" will be adapted to the policies of the service for securing file servers and desktop computers with the tool "ISP" (formerly TSM) as of 01.09.2019.

The next generation supercomputer at SCC is called HoreKa. The abbreviation stands for "Hochleistungsrechner Karlsruhe" and is borrowed from the Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe, or GridKa for short, which is also operated at SCC.

The new SCC News amongst others with these topics: New KIT backbone - 100G in KIT core network; HeAT - Helmholtz Analytics Toolkit; Our youth researches successfully!

All KIT employees as well as "guests and partners" will be able to use the customer interface of the SCC ticket system from 5 August 2019 in order to submit user enquiries.

Officially kicked off on 5 July 2019, for the next 3 years, EOSC-Pillar will coordinate national Open Science efforts across Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and ensure their contribution and readiness for the implementation of the EOSC.

Get to know our IT centre. Meet us. Have a drink. Start your career. Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) will present itself on 24. July 2019, 14:30 at KIT Campus South, Bldg.. 20.21 / UG

With the project HAICU (Helmholtz Artifical Intelligence Cooperation Unit) of the Helmholtz Association, in which SCC and IAI are also collaborating, KIT is further expanding its outstanding research competence in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With the new projects EOSC-synergy and EOSC-Pillar, KIT is further expanding its contribution to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Both projects benefit from SCC's many years of data management know-how.

The paper entitled "OCR-D: An End-to-end Open-source OCR Framework for Historical Documents" won the Best Paper Award at the international conference "Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2019" (DATeCH2019).

Since May 2019 the LSDF Online Storage is directly available on the HPC-Cluster ForHLR I and II. The connection was realized using InfiniBand technology and IBM Spectrum Scale.

First release of Ginkgo now available. Ginkgo is the next-generation high-performance, on-node, sparse linear algebra library. The software leverages the features of modern C++ to give you a tool for the iterative solution of linear systems.

16 partner institutions from all over Germany have taken an important step towards the sustainable operation of DARIAH-DE by concluding a joint operating cooperation agreement.

SCC is a prominent partner in the EOSC-secretariat.eu, supporting governance for EOSC while working with communities towards an all-encompassing European Open Science Cloud.

Ten girls from classes 6 to 10 visited SCC as participants of Girls'Day. The varied program gave the students interesting insights into the diverse work of a scientific computing and data center.

SCC will be represented with even three contributions at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). Here, researchers from all over the world will present their latest research results on parallel computing.

The use of an additional virus scanner prevents the central mail inbox systems from accepting messages with Office files containing macros or macro-like content.

Anyone who has used the openSUSE mirror of the SCC (ftp.scc.kit.edu/pub/opensuse), should switch to the official mirror proxy.

The Adobe Connect Web conferencing service at the SCC is discontinued. An alternative is the DFNconf service.

On 26 and 27 February, two teams of students from the project Simulated Worlds at Jugend forscht faced the questions of the jury and an interested public and presented the results of their intensive research work.

The data centers of Hochschule Karlsruhe, the KIT library and the SCC ensure the integration of the new Science Data Center MoMaF into the research and teaching structures of its partners and support it with research data management services.

The new SCC News amongst others with these topics:  30 Years of Network – an Evolutionary Story; Extended Cloud Solution productively available for Users; Sustainability Aspects in Developing the Ginkgo Software Library.

At work or at home - Security on the Internet concerns us all! On today's Safer Internet Day, you will get to know the wide range of IT security services available to protect the KIT IT infrastructure together.

The service "bwCloud SCOPE" provides virtualized server and application infrastructure as a cloud service for employees and students of universities and colleges in Baden-Württemberg.

Get to know our IT centre. Meet us. Have a drink. Start your career.

The project CAMMP - Computational and Mathematical Modeling Program - has been running since 01.01.2018 not only at the RWTH Aachen University, but also at KIT in Karlsruhe.

Since yesterday, more than 50 petabytes of data from the high-energy physics experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) have been stored on tape cassettes of the Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe at KIT.

Seit 30. November 2018 ist der neue Dienst MASi (Metadata Management for Applied Sciences) zum metadaten-getriebenen Management von Forschungsdaten online. 

The LSDF is a storage system for large-scale research data from data-intensive scientific disciplines. It is available as a multi-petabyte storage system to researchers at KIT, their partners in the federal state and the Helmholtz Association.

The trainee Patrick Welter was honoured at the annual bestowal of the IHK Karlsruhe for outstanding achievements in his training as IT specialist system integration. Patrick Welter completed his apprenticeship at the SCC.

Wartungen an der IT-Infrastruktur für zentrale IT-Dienste am KIT werden i.d.R. zu regelmäßigen Wartungsterminen durchgeführt. Ab 2019 gilt eine neue Regelung.  

The platform of the new DFN video conferencing service is now available. This enables KIT staff to conduct video conferences with their partners.

A publication of the SimLab Energy at SCC, created in cooperation with the Engler-Bunte-Institut (EBI), was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 6th OpenFOAM Conference in Hamburg.

SCC coordinates the activities of the new AG "Zeitungen & Zeitschriften" of the Digital Humanities Association

The Simulated Worlds project scholarship begins in 2018 with 12 scholarship holders

Origin live - Evaluate. Visualize. Effective use.

Pupils conduct research in teams with the help of mathematical methods and the use of computers on research questions from companies and university institutes. They will present their results on September 28, 2018.

Migration of the KeyShot License Manager to the scclic4.scc.kit.edu by 31.9.2018

Das Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst unterstützt mit seiner High Performance Computing (HPC) und Data Intensive Computing (DIC) Strategie den Ausbau und die Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Infrastruktur im Land.

The new SCC News amongst others with these topics:  The KIT-Card - Accessibility, Technology, Background;  Neoteric Autonomous Stencil code for Jolly Algorithm; Students Research Using Mathematical Modelling.

The combination of different DNS systems in the GFB and UB to form one naming service for KIT was previously prone to errors. The enhanced network database (NETDB) now ensures data integrity and consistency.

1:1 NAT records of the NAT service will no longer be supported as of December 1, 2019. Computers require a public IP address for access from the Internet. The SCC supports the IT officers in the changeover.

The new SCC ticket system simplifies communication between KIT employees and students and the service operators of SCC.

The "bwFileStorage" service for the mass storage of scientific data will be discontinued on 18 November 2018. Migration of data still required is necessary.

Die Wissenschaftsministerinnen Anja Karliczek (BMBF) und Theresia Bauer (MWK) besuchten am 27.07. gemeinsam das KIT. Sie informieren sich u. a. auch in den Räumlichkeiten des SCC zu Zukunftsthemen der Informationstechnologie.

From September 19 to 21, 2018, DARIAH-DE invites all those interested in digital humanities to a grand tour to Darmstadt.

In the workshop, 35 participants learned about the central antivirus service and its components. The new Antivirus concept based on BSI IT-Grundschutz was also presented.

Yuhsiang Tsai and Yen-Chen Chen, two graduates from the National Taiwan University (NTU), are visiting Steinbuch Centre for Computing in July and August and working with Dr. Hartwig Anzt.

On the way to an integrated nationwide computing and data infrastructure, the project will provide first-class and effective support to scientists and users.

Under the title "Knowledge Economies - Order and Transgression in Premodern Cultures" the 6th Annual Meeting of the Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Motion" took place in Berlin from June 28-30, 2018.

Im ersten OCR-D Entwicklerworkshop trafen sich alle Partner, um Einzelschritte der Optical Character Recognition für historische Drucke zu einem Gesamtablauf zusammenzuführen.

MINT-Fächer zu Vorreitern der Internationalisierung zu machen - dafür bekommt das KIT 100.000 Euro vom Stifterverband, der Daimler und Benz Stiftung und dem Daimler Fonds.

Die Abteilung Data Exploitation Methods ist bei NFFA für den Aufbau einer verteilten Dateninfrastruktur verantwortlich, um Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern eine einfache und nachhaltige Datenverwaltung nach FAIR-Prinzipien zu ermöglichen.

15 million for the ForHLR successor system granted. The supercomputer inaugurated in 2016 will be replaced by an even more powerful successor from mid-2019. The new system should be fully operational by 2021.

This year's GridKa School teaches modern concepts of data analysis and machine learning as well as management, administration and security in HPC systems and the cloud.

Esri has released a patch for a critical vulnerability of the ArcGIS Server software.

The state project bwNET100G+ was awarded second place in the category Ideas & Research around the data center at the German Computer Center Award. The prize is awarded annually for innovative projects in data centers.

Not only the appearance of the "mailing lists" has changed. Encrypted e-mails can now also be sent via the Sympa-based service.

Computing time projects can be submitted online at any time. Applications are reviewed by the HLRS Steering Committee within eight weeks.

A new state license for the MATLAB/SIMULINK software product family has been valid for all universities and polytechnics in Baden-Württemberg since April 1, 2018. The license agreement has a term of five years.

From April 10 to 12, 2018, the SCC is once again organizing a block event on the topic High Performance Computing (HPC). This is aimed at HPC beginners on the first day and experienced HPC users on the second and third days.

SCC was officially founded on 22nd February 2008, even before KIT was founded in 2009. It was created as a result of the merger of the data centre of University of Karlsruhe with the Institute for Scientific Computing of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

The EU funds building a pan-European cloud of services for the exchange, use and reuse of research data. The SCC directs the work package "Federation and collaborative services", which focuses on IT service management.

Seven students from the working group "Current Research in Molecular Biology" at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Ettlingen, headed by biology teacher Oliver Abel, came to SCC for an educational excursion.

The new SCC News amongst others with these topics: Implementation of a Two-Factor Authentication, Progress in the federal state project bwNET100G+, SCC as central IT service provider of KIT.

As of December 18,2017, guest and partner administration (GUP) will be available as a web-based application (WEB-GUP) in the SAP Enterprise Portal.

The introduction of two-factor authentication at KIT improves the security of sensitive IT applications. In the first step, the business processes in the SAP system are secured with two-factor authentication.

A publication of the SCC, produced in cooperation with the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), was honored with the Best Paper Award at the IEEE eScience conference.

An explanation of the attacks and an assessment of the resulting vulnerabilities for members of KIT

Thorsten Zirwes, PhD student at the SCC, wins the Golden Spike Award at the Results and Review Workshop at the HLRS in Stuttgart. With his simulation, a turbulent flame could be investigated in an unprecedented depth of detail.

This book gives an overview of the activities in the Helmholtz Portfolio Theme Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis. Four Helmholtz Centres, six universities and another research institution in Germany joined to enable data-intensive science.  

Several changes are planned to improve the Wi-Fi service at KIT. Please note the adaptations of the network names (SSID) provided in the future.

The KIT has brought the multifunctional online office package ONLYOFFICE in productive operation for the nationwide online storage service bwSync&Share - which is based on the sync and share solution PowerFolder from dal33t GmbH, Düsseldorf.

In addition to lectures on Big Data use-cases, data analysis and platforms as well as tutorials and trainings, the conference offers discussion sessions with industry representatives of the Data Innovation Communities of the Smart Data Innovation Lab.

The new SCC News amongst others with these topics: German data center price - first place for energy efficiency, simulation of turbulent combustion, new self-service - release of personal data.

Ab sofort steht der neue OpenVPN-Dienst allen Nutzern mit VPN-Zugangsberechtigung zur Verfügung und wird ab 2018 als alleiniger VPN-Dienst am KIT angeboten. Mit dem erneuerten OpenVPN-Dienst wird nun IPv6 vollständig unterstützt.

Das Internet of Things (IoT) ist im Kommen und die Anzahl der verfügbaren Geräte wächst stetig. Bitte beachten Sie die Hinweise des SCC zur Beschaffung und Einbindung von IoT-Devices.

Karl Steinbuch, der Namensgeber des SCC, war ein Pionier der Informatik und Wegbereiter des maschinellen Lernens und der künstlichen neuronalen Netze. Am 15. Juni 2017 wäre Steinbuch 100 Jahre alt geworden.

Im April 2017 wurde ein neues Onlinespeichersystem mit einer Kapazität von 20 Petabyte in Betrieb genommen. GridKa erhält damit zusätzlich eine Leistungssteigerung sowie eine einfache Erweiterbarkeit für zukünftig wachsende Anforderungen.

Having successfully applied for funding at the Helmholtz Foundation, Hartwig Anzt started a Young Investigator Group on the topic "Fixed-Point Methods for Numerics at Exascale (FiNE)".

First place of the award Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis 2017 for the Forschungshochleistungsrechner ForHLR II at KIT in the category "Newly built energy- and resource-efficient data centers".

The Institute Cluster II (IC2) will be shut down as of April 30, 2017. The bwUniCluster and the high-performance computer ForHLR are available as alternatives.

Science Cloud enters a new phase - successful proposals are announced. In February, consortia from industry representatives from 10 leading European research organizations presented design proposals for hybrid cloud models.

Researchers from the KIT / SCC predicted protein structures independently of complex experiments on the basis of statistical analyzes. With high-performance computers of the SCC and available data sets, nearly 2000 proteins could be examined.

Wegen der Abkündigung der Education Master Suite 2015 empfiehlt das SCC den Umstieg auf das Nachfolgeprogramm Autodesk Education Community. Hierfür sind ausreichend Netzwerklizenzen verfügbar.

Im Programm HPC II werden fünf Projekte aus vier Forschungseinrichtungen mit ca. 4 Mio. Euro finanziert. Am 7.2. wurden die Projekte bei einem Auftakttreffen vorgestellt.

Universities in Germany regional network of cloud solutions to collaborate on documents and data. The initiative deutsche.hochschul.cloud should connect now secure the different statewide services.

The already running KIT Proxies have moved to production by activating the host for the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol wpad.kit.edu; hosts within kit.edu automatically contact it to get the Proxy Auto-Config.

Pricing for the provisioning of virtualized server systems has been adjusted. The systems can now be offered with a reduced price.

Ende November wurde in bwSync&Share das Online Editing im Probebetrieb aktiviert und damit die Bearbeitung von Office-Dokumenten mit OnlyOffice bereitgestellt.

Zur Langzeitspeicherung von Daten, die in der Wissenschaft anfallen und für 10 Jahre oder mehr aufbewahrt bzw zugänglich sein müssen, bietet das SCC ab sofort den neuen Archivierungsdienst bwDataArchiv an.

As of January 31, 2017, the HPC cluster XC3000 (HC3) will be shut down. The users of the bwUniCluster and the high-performance computer ForHLR are available as alternatives.

New SCC-News i. a. with this Topics: An Open Haven for Research Data; State-wide Service bwDataArchiv goes into Operation; Smart Data Innovation Conference 2016 at SCC.

Again the SCC has opened its doors to numerous members of the general public in 2016. During a total of 70 events more than 1300 guests had the opportunity to visit the SCC and see the systems and infrastructure.

Under the leadership of KIT/SCC, the Helmholtz Association has begun the realization of the Helmholtz Data Federation (HDF), a federated research data infrastructure.

With this upgrade to Exchange 2013, SCC offers all employees and students a stable, secure and comfortable e-mail service featuring up-to-date technology.

The International GridKa School is one of the leading summer schools for advanced computing techniques in Europe.

Evening lecture at GridKa School by Prof. Dr. Frank Köster (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) on Wednesday 31 August 18:30 @ KIT Campus North - FTU Aula

The INDIGO-DataCloud project is pleased to announce the general availability of its first public software release, codenamed MidnightBlue.

Bitkom-Report presents to a broad community scientific organizations, i. a. the Helmholtz programme Supercomputing & Big Data, technology provider and user with their key resarch topics, projects, products and services concerning Big Data.

Die neue SCC-News i. a. with this topics: Power-On for one quadrillion computing operations per second; From Medieval Manuscripts to Digital Preservation; Growing Stone – Artwork for the new ForHLR building.

Since the beginning of May 2016 the University of Rostock uses the Online Sync and Share Service bwSync&Share within the DFN-Cloud framework and now online for all employees and students.

The rapid population growth along with climatic changes results in new challenges for modern agriculture. A deeper understanding of important economic plants, such as rice, is a precondition for the development of new cultivars.

On April 5, 2016 the company "Additive" together with the SCC held a tutorial "Wissenstransfertag zu Mathematica".  The tutorial was directed to employees and students of the KIT.  Aside the talks advised exercises took place.

Der Resolver-Dienst für die externe DNS-View auf den IP-Adressen 141.52.27.35 und 129.13.65.10 wird abgeschaltet. Die neuen Adressen für den Resolver-Dienst sind bereits produktiv, sodaß ab sofort umkonfiguriert werden kann.

The system allows deep investigations in several research areas such as energy, environment, materials science and engineering technology. ForHLR II is housed in a dedicated building equipped with the newest highly-efficient cooling technologies.

SCC-Forschungsgruppe Multiscale Biomolecular Simulation erhält den „Google Faculty Research Award“ für einen alternativen Ansatz zur Vorhersage der Raumstruktur von Biomolekülen.

Am 22. und 23. Februar veranstaltet das SCC gemeinsam mit dem OpenText Web Solution Usergroup e.V. zwei interessante Tage am KIT.

HS-Analysis GmbH is managed by Sergey Biniaminov and located in SCC/KIT. One of the primary goals of HS Analysis GmbH is the close collaboration in life sciences with the SCC/KIT.

The project bwFDM-Communities should find out what new requirements, tasks or wishes regarding their research data scientists in Baden-Württemberg have.

On the 1st of October KIT hosted for the fourth time the Symposium “The Challenge of Big Data in Science”. About 90 participants from Germany, France, Spain, China and the United States of America joined the event.

At the international GridKa School on September 7-11 with 149 participants from four continents. In 17 plenary talks and 21 parallel tutorials, GridKa School students took a dive into recent trends in big data, virtualization and modern programming.

Recently two members of Virgo Collaboration have won a DAAD Fellowships to work as Visiting Scientist at SCC in joint R&D project with HPC experts of SimLab EA Particles.

The scholarship holders of the project „Simulierte Welten“ presented their results on the four simulation projects: Climate Modelling, High Energy Physics Analysis, Aerosol Formation and Protein Folding, in a public School Colloquium.

The Steinbuch Centre for Computing of KIT presents with an own booth research work from the topics grid, high performance and data-intensive computing.

For her excellent master's thesis Ines Reinartz receives the Erna-Scheffler-Award. The work written at the Faculty of Physics of KIT is entitled "Simulation of FRET dyes with native structure-based models".

The DFN-Association organizes Cloud Services for science institutions. KIT offers for the portfolio the file-exchange and online-storage service bwSync&Share.

Florian Jacob, Student des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie erhält Auszeichnung für Bachelorarbeit. ITK Engineering verleiht Award an die besten Studierenden technischer Fakultäten aus ganz Deutschland.

The recent paper of SCC about organization of GridKa School presented at IEEE international conference EDUCON2015 received Best Paper Award in the category "Most Innovative Paper".

Researchers at the ITG and the SCC gain entirely new insights into the development of the central nervous system of vertebrates.

SCC and da-cons store and analyze images of growing plants at the Botanical Institute of KIT