Top ranking for a supercomputer in Göttingen: In the latest edition of the Top500 list of the world’s fastest computers, the “Emmy” system installed in Göttingen is ranked 47th in the world. In Germany, Emmy ranks fifth, and is thus the most powerful computer in North Germany. Emmy is a system of the North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), which is operated by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) and the University of Göttingen.

More information:

• GWDG press release 3/2020 from 17.11.2020

Göttingen becomes one of the centers of the newly founded National High Performance Computing Alliance (NHR). This is what the Joint Science Conference (GWK) announced today. Associated with this is funding totaling around 72 million euros over ten years. The application was submitted on behalf of the seven northern German states of the North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) for a joint NHR center of its locations University of Göttingen/GWDG and Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). Berlin receives an equally high funding.

More information:

• Press release Nr. 166 of the University of Göttingen

The September/October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Metadata Harvesting on the Platform “WirLernenOnline“
• GWDG Participates in the Open Education Portal “WirLernenOnline”
• Five NFDI Consortia with Participation of the Göttingen Campus Launched
• Possible Applications of X.509 Certificates – Part 1: Server Certificates
• Automated Application for Server Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• Graduation Project for an Apprenticeship at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 9-10/2020

The Information Technology Division of the University Medical Center Göttingen is looking for a network administrator as soon as possible.

The job offer

The dates for the known next three HPC courses “Using the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster”, “Parallel Programming with MPI” and “Programming with CUDA” were recently published in the course program of the GWDG Academy. They will take place in November and will be held in a suitable online format, as in spring due to the Corona Pandemic. Registrations for the courses can be made in the usual form.