The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) and the IT of the Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG) cooperate in the area of infrastructure operation and are looking for a manager for the management of networks (m/f/d) as soon as possible.
The GWDG strives to make the use of its diverse services as accessible as possible. For this purpose, we already published a guideline for accessible IT in 2020, which we follow. We have now set up a barriers reporting point, [...]
Most researchers at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Society are familiar with the GWDG as a long-standing IT provider. However, the GWDG also provides high-performance computing (HPC) resources to researchers at the University and the MPS. With [...]
The Göttingen eResearch Alliance (eRA) started a survey to assess the visibility of the eRA and its services at the Göttingen Campus. Please participate in this survey to contribute to the development of research data management support at the Göttingen [...]
In 2020, the GWDG celebrated its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, a ten-minute YouTube video shows an interesting time travel through 50 years of scientific data processing at the GWDG at the long-time founding location “Am Faßberg” on the Max [...]
Starting in October 2023, the GWDG will offer special courses for apprentices in addition to the usual course program of its Academy. These two- or three-day courses will take place in the Göttingen Data Center, Burckhardtweg 4, and are aimed [...]
Yesterday, not only a serious vulnerability in AMD’s Zen 2 CPUs was disclosed, but also a very easy-to-use exploit for this vulnerability was published. By exploiting this vulnerability, sensitive data, such as passwords, can be read from other processes and [...]
On July 1, 2023, the productive operation of our new service “STACK-Maxima” has started. The service gives operators of e-learning systems such as Ilias or Moodle the possibility to interpret mathematical questions resp. exercises created via STACK algebraically, thus the [...]
As of now, all users of our Indico service, which can be used for event management, also have the language “German” as an additional selection option for the user interface. This applies to both the general instance https://events.gwdg.de and the [...]
On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the Max Planck Society is offering a day of wonder, discovery and participation on Friday, 23.06.2023, at its founding site in Göttingen. For this purpose, a science market will be set up in [...]
The GWDG Academy course program for the second half of 2023 has now been published. As in previous months, all courses will take place in a suitable online format rather than as presence courses. You can find more information about [...]
After several years of preparation, the GWDG has received the certificate for compliance with ISO 27001. This means that the GWDG is now one of only a few scientific IT service providers to meet this important quality standard for information [...]
As many of you have already noticed, the licenses for Sophos Antivirus expire on July 20, 2023. Renewing the licenses is not an option, as the software is no longer offered as an on-premises version. The University of Göttingen participated [...]
Artificial intelligence methods are increasingly being used in sensitive and critical infrastructures. The new national AI service center “KISSKI” focuses in particular on the application and research of AI methods in the fields of energy and health. At the opening [...]
The application deadline for the Data Science Summer School 2023, about which we already informed here, has been extended to 31.05.2023. If you are interested in participating, we look forward to receiving your application via our application form[...]
Message-Id: 202305051300 Time: July 2023 Affected: all Impact: no Sophos on-premise support
In July, Sophos on-premises support will end, which is why the GWDG is switching endpoint protection to Bitdefender. Currently, extensive tests with the Bitdefender software are taking place [...]