Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

Developing a new, open web index, sounding out the legal basis for its use and establishing business models for new search services, including those based on #artificialintelligence: This is the goal of OpenWebSearch.eu and, in addition to technical work and programming, requires above all management and organisation, especially as the project also includes the tendering and awarding of funding to external research groups or companies. LRZ researcher Shahab Khormali is responsible for the organisation at Openwebsearch.eu, keeps the project running and is looking for new contacts and collaborators. In this interview, he talks about his work and the next milestones: exciting background: https://lnkd.in/dQ7p4qwm #IT4Science, #onlinesearch, #freewebsearch, #opensearch, #opensource ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), GÉANT, Center for Digital Society, Digital Society Conference #DSC2, Centre for Digital Responsibility

It has been 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, today the Bundestag is commemorating the victims of National Socialism - and once again too many in Germany are following the easy answers of populists and the right. Active remembrance of the suffering that marginalisation, discrimination and prejudice have caused and continue to cause can help to counteract this. Digital contemporary witnesses and their stories motivate personal commitment: #Niewiederistjetzt (never again is now) The Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung reports on the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München project LediZ and how not only pupils learn through the life stories of digital contemporary witnesses that democracy and personal freedom are at risk if we do not actively protect them: https://lnkd.in/dipRJiUs (in German) #democracy, #memory, #history History Education, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) - University of Luxembourg, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,

The highest temperatures since weather records began, floods and forest fires: 2024 has shown us what will happen if we do little or nothing to combat the constant global warming (and 2025 is already pointing strongly in that direction): The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Centre of Advanced Studies is therefore devoting an interdisciplinary lecture series to ‘Extreme Heat’. Most recently, anthropogeographer Matthias Garschagen and water expert Prof. Dr. Martin Grambow discussed the protection of water systems with geographer Ralf Ludwig. The lecture series can be found on YouTube - and provides many new arguments for discussions about #climatechange: https://lnkd.in/dEtkaWG3 #IT4Science, #researchdeliverssolutions, #climateresearch, #S4F Scientists For Future #S4F, Scientists for Future Netherlands, Climate Change AI, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) , Fridays For Future International, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, OPERA Project (Horizon Europe)

Researchers usually rely on free, openly available software, and we at the LRZ are also committed to this: This weekend, programmers and developers (also from science) will meet in Brussels at #FOSDEM25 and exchange tricks and ideas or present useful tools. This is also the case with the two LRZ researchers Ivan Pribec and Michele Martone: They will present how codes in C programming languages can be reliably and easily transformed into Fortran with the help of #Coccinelle and show this using the BLIS library as an example: https://lnkd.in/dA7pKhZk #IT4Science, #freesoftware, #opensource, #coding4science Code Gaia, Coding Ninjas 10X Developer Club, CODE, ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroCC, Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, GÉANT, Europe Coding School, Women Who Code Data Science, Research Institute CODE

Research results are valuable and also of interest to data thieves. The scientific community, which wants to keep its networks and systems openly available, is fighting back - with information security strategies. The 32nd ‘Security in Networked Systems’ conference of the DFN-Verein will take place on 11 and 12 February. Security experts will meet at the Grand Elysée Hotel Hamburg to discuss technologies and measures to secure data and information for open science. Registration is open until 28 January: https://lnkd.in/dBz4AujD #ITsecurity #cybersecurity Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, GÉANT, Open Science Tools, OpenScience, Association "Open Science", EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)

The HLRS - Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart - has just inaugurated its new supercomputer named Hunter: We congratulate the new resource and wish it exciting research projects and many useful computing results. Hunter is based on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray Supercomputing EX4000 architecture, each of its 188 nodes is equipped with four Slingshot high-performance interconnects. The machine uses the E2000 storage system and HPE's Programming Environment software, which provides tools for developing, porting, debugging and optimising applications at scale. Hunter is also designed for sustainability - it uses energy-efficient AMD Instinct™ Accelerated Processing Units (APU) that combine CPU cores and GPU, the system is fanless and direct liquid cooled, and enables dynamic power capping to maximise energy performance. More about Hunter: https://lnkd.in/dzfmHJt7 and here: https://lnkd.in/dKsr89u4 Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, EuroCC GCS EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO)

That went under the radar last year: At the end of 2024, a consortium of research institutions and companies published the first large European language model #Teuken7 as freely available #openSource software. Compared to other large language models, Teuken7 was trained with 50% non-English data and in the 24 official languages of the European Union, the model comprises 7 billion parameters and can be downloaded here along with model cards: https://lnkd.in/ep5zFWaP , information and links to research articles can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dFuN8KBt The colourful graphic below shows the language distribution in the training data set of Teuken7. Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) , DFN-Verein, ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Asia-Europe for Artificial Intelligence (AE4AI) Network, European Association for Artificial Intelligence EurAI,

Stronger together and internationally competitive: During the DLD Conference, investor and TUM professor Ann-Kristin Achleitner discussed quantum computing with Alexander Glätzle, co-founder of planqc, and Prof Dieter Kranzlmueller, Director of the LRZ, and where the Munich ecosystem stands in comparison to the progress made in the USA. "Far ahead," was the unanimous answer from Kranzlmueller and Glätzle. The reasons: ⚡Munich Quantum Valley benefits from the academic excellence of two universities and numerous research institutions such as the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, from which planqc was founded ⚡ It is also home to many strong companies and thus the first users and application groups that co-finance and drive developments ⚡ In contrast to the USA, Europe and Germany rely on broad, diverse research and all available quantum technologies, such as ion traps, superconductors, photonics, neutral atoms and more. ⚡ The state and federal states promote open-technology research ⚡ The integration of quantum technologies into supercomputers makes the technologies cost-effective and efficient to use, even if a universal quantum computer is still a long way off. You will find the whole discussion here https://lnkd.in/duzmURb6 EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, AQT, IQM Quantum Computers, ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, Quantum Computing, UnternehmerTUM, UVC Partners,

Programming for #supercomputers or massively parallel systems is difficult. Scientists and researchers can find out more at the #HIPSWorkshop, which will take place in Milan from 27 May 2025. LRZ researcher Amir Raoofy is co-organising the #workshop - the organising team is looking for #presentations on #programming high-performance computers until January, 27: So hurry up with your ideas. This year's focus is on new programming schemes, working with #GPUs and #accelerators and integrating AI methods into classic HPC. More info: https://lnkd.in/dgbpPCkG #programming, #supercomputing, #IT4Science, #research Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) Intuit Open Source GÉANT TUM.ai IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center HLRS - Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

We have something for your eyes this weekend: The Centre for Virtual Reality and Visualisation (V2C) has put together a whole host of interesting research projects for 2024 that have been transformed into pictures worth seeing at the LRZ. Let yourself be inspired: https://lnkd.in/dfas2MPM Virtual Reality, Science Visuals Coworking Sessions, Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, IEEE VR - Conference On Virtual Reality And 3D User Interfaces