In order to take account of the increasing use of Apple devices in the research community, the GWDG has taken on the task of tendering a new Apple framework agreement for scientific institutions. For all institutions that have declared their [...]
A competitive data economy requires the smooth exchange of data. This is why MISSION KI, an initiative of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs, commissioned five of the [...]
Access to information is the key to progress and innovation. And the most important information is now machine-readable. The DFG-funded research project “AVefi”, in which the GWDG is involved with three other partners, is based on this fundamental insight [...]
The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
Freie Universität Berlin, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, GWDG and the Tübingen-based company DAASI International GmbH, which specializes in research infrastructure, have jointly launched open source software that offers better protection against hacker attacks for IT services [...]
As a domain scientist doing high-performance computing, you might find the need to code yourself. Be it that you need custom scripts for efficient file handling, extending the functionality of pre-existing software, or even coding a larger software project from [...]
Under the motto “Discover your possibilities – find your studies”, this year’s Info Days at the University of Göttingen will take place on March 11 and 12 on the central campus in the Central Lecture Hall Building (ZHG), Platz der [...]
The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
Starting from February 22nd, 2024, GWDG offers its own ChatGPT service, which runs on in-house hardware. All users with an AcademicCloud account can access the website and chat with a generative AI to support their work. The service is currently [...]
The GWDG offers data scientists various services and training courses to support them in their work throughout their entire workflow. As the success of a machine learning project often depends on the available computing resources, the working group “Computing” operates [...]
As part of the BMBF founded project FORESTCARE we have developed SynForest, an application that generates high-quality point cloud datasets of synthetic forests. For this purpose, we aimed to produce realistic patterns by combining forest growth simulation tools such [...]
The November/December issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
The GWDG Academy course program for the first half of 2024 has now been published. It contains a large number of new courses, especially in the field of Scientific Computing and High-Performance Computing. All courses take place either in a [...]
The SUB’s user survey will run until 17.12.2023, allowing you to actively shape the library experience.
SpiNNcloud Systems and the GWDG invite you to a workshop on the hardware platform SpiNNaker 2. Are you working in the fields of theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, robotics or image and signal processing? Would you like to develop new software [...]
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is a dynamic field that is constantly advancing into new areas of our being and expanding the boundaries of what is possible. This technology, which was the subject of science fiction stories in its [...]
Several German universities, including the University of Göttingen / GWDG, are jointly organizing the IT Security Awareness Days for the sixth time from November 7 – November 17, 2023 as a cross-university public online event series with exciting presentations on [...]
The September/October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
There are many python packages that are tightly integrated with Dask which enables parallel data processing. For instance, consider xarray package. This package is used to read datasets in netcdf, hdf5, zarr file formats. Dask comes in play when data [...]