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 [...]
Deep learning powers a broad range of applications, from autonomous cars and image generation to voice assistants. The successful training of deep learning models necessitates the use of graphics processing units (GPUs). To facilitate a quick and easy start with [...]
Quantum computers and their capabilities is an area of growing global interest and resource allocation. Particularly exciting is the possibility of exponential improvements in classical machine learning algorithms when executed by an equivalent algorithm on a quantum computer. GWDG, along [...]
VSCode is a popular lightweight IDE developed by Microsoft that supports many programming languages and scripts. There are many features and capabilities that can be added to VSCode by installing extensions from the marketplace, including the ability to develop [...]
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[...]
An AI-based solution to one of the grand challenges in modern biology
“AlphaFold” is a word which may or may not sound familiar to you. It is an open-source, deep-learning application to predict protein structures, celebrated as a breakthrough to [...]
Four of our colleagues of AG Computing had a fantastic time at the PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2023. During the three days at the conference, a diverse set of topics related to Python and data science was addressed. [...]