The joint project “Platform for Inter*national Student Mobility” (PIM), led by the University of Göttingen and the TU Berlin and including the GWDG and seven other universities, is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with 5.2 [...]
Top placement for the Göttingen supercomputer: In the most recent issue of the Green500 list of the world‘s most energy-efficient supercomputers the new system “Grete“, which has just been taken into operation, achieved rank 1 in Germany and rank 12 [...]
The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
Mastodon is becoming more and more popular as a Twitter alternative. The GWDG would like to take into account the increased interest from its customers and the scientific community and plans to include Mastodon in its portfolio of services.
We [...]
The GWDG is looking for an application developer (m/f/d) for digital workflows and processes to strengthen the working group “Basic Services and Organization” (AG O) as soon as possible.
We are happy to announce that MathWorks will be holding two MATLAB workshops in the scope of the GWDG Academy before the end of the year.
The first workshop “Speeding up your MATLAB Code on your local machine”, on [...]
In the third and final round of calls for proposals for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), the NFDIxCS project is one of seven to receive funding. As a co-applicant of this project, the GWDG is thus successfully expanding its [...]
In order to further focus the enormous progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) for critical infrastructures, especially in the fields of energy and medicine, and to act as a competent contact in the future, five institutions from the [...]
Online embedding of Google Fonts criticized,
Local hosting of Google Fonts is strongly recommended
The Regional Court of Munich issued a ruling in January 2022 that the embedding of the free Google Fonts via the Google server is not DSGVO-compliant. [...]
We have added the “AWS Academy Cloud Foundations” course, which we offer in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, to our GWDG Academy program with an additional date at short notice. It will take place in an online format [...]
The October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
The cloud computing field has grown massively over the past ten years. This has opened up many new areas of application, and at the same time the demands on the hardware and performance of cloud applications have increased. Modern cloud [...]
At noon on Friday, 14.10.2022, massive disruptions to the power supply of the Göttingen
University North Campus (area of the University Medical Center Göttingen to the MPI campus
Am Faßberg) occurred due to construction work in the Göttingen city area. [...]
No more operational messages about the status of a service at the GWDG will be published here.
Please use the link on the homepage via the RSS feed “Operating News” or go directly via https://status.gwdg.de. [...]
Several German universities, including the University of Göttingen / GWDG, are jointly organizing the IT Security Awareness Days as a cross-university public online event series for the fourth time from 10.10. – 19.10.2022. The 14 lecture topics cover everything from [...]
The September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
Due to the discontinuation of CrashPlan OnPremises, the GWDG will no longer be able to offer the GWDG CrashPlan service after 16 September. This means that after September 16th it will no longer be possible to access the backups.
As [...]
Message-Id: 202208300922
Time: uesday, the 30.08.2022 - 6:50 - 8:30
Affected: Users of GWDG Cloud Server Service
Impact: Management of cloud resources not possible
For reasons still unknown, the load balancer of the GWDG Cloud Server service lost its Virtual [...]
Message-Id: 202208251611
Time: permanent, from now on
Affected: Users of the vCenter
Impact: Longterm no access to
Dear VMware customers,
unfortunately some users are experiencing trouble with the permissions on the new RDS, please excuse these issues.
If you have [...]
Message-Id: 202208261110
Time: 27.08.2022 07:00 – 15:05
Affected: SharePoint Farm
Impact: All website collections were temporarily unavailable
As announced, GWDG SharePoint Farm maintenance has been carried out and has finished successfully.
All site collections are available again without any restrictions. [...]