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We say hello to the weekend with a fantastic picture show by the ORIGINS Cluster, a research partner of the LRZ: together with Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig GmbH and digital artists, the researchers of Origins are depicting the development of life in the universe in incredible images. They use 3D design, artificial intelligence and analogue macroscopic photography. "Life's Epic Journey" is the name of the sensational exhibition, which can be seen in Leipzig until the end of June. Let yourself be carried away and fascinated by the beauty of life: https://lnkd.in/dGiWDjqU Markos Kay, ZEITGUISED, Nervous System, KLING KLANG KLONG, Martin Salfity, Dave Evans, Technische Universität München Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, HLRS - Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, Scientists For Future #S4F HPCwire, Fridays For Future International, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V., XR2C2 eXtended Reality Research and Creative Center

The Max Planck Society reports on the Garching-based start-up planqc, a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, which is developing #quantumcomputers based on neutral atoms in optical lattices. The technology is based on the fact that atoms of rubidium, lithium or strontium can be easily captured and used when #laserlight and #magneticfields are combined. The plan is to integrate this technology into the LRZ's #supercomputers from 2027. We are already very excited about this: https://lnkd.in/dyuakgbH (in German only). EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, Quantum - the open journal for quantum science, Munich Quantum Valley, DLR Institute of Quantum Technologies,

We are looking for new colleagues: Do you know the technology and functionalities of cloud computing with an openstack? So you will find a good job and a cheerful and divers team at LRZ, where you can build an secure environment for medical datas. Join us: https://lnkd.in/e83fNyVA Technische Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing IaaS, Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) , Data Science AI Learner Community

At the #EuropeanQuantumSoftwareandSystemsSummit in Dublin researchers, compute centers and vendors discuss the hybrid software stack für classical hpc and quantum computing. The progess goes on. ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)

Time to plan the month: #February once again has some exciting dates in store for IT specialists: ✏️ The LRZ recently put its new Linux cluster into operation and is now demonstrating how researchers can use this system for themselves. You can still register for the one-day, free online workshop until 6 February: https://lnkd.in/dzmpVNqf ✏️ DFN-Verein is hosting its #CERTsecurity conference on 11 and 12 February. Find out how you can ensure security in networked systems: https://lnkd.in/dBz4AujD ✏️ The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has designated 14 February as #FreeSoftwareDay. At the LRZ, IT specialists will find out about the free software used in super- and quantum computing and for artificial intelligence methods. Free software is an answer to the closed, commercial software products of corporations: https://lnkd.in/dcAraGAa ✏️ You can register a large #HPC project with the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing until 17 February. A short concept with your project is sufficient: https://lnkd.in/guqNmMYd ✏️ On 19 February, Munich Quantum Valley will kick off the #InternationalYearofQuantumPhysics with a lecture by Rainer Blatt. Registration here: https://lnkd.in/d-jJeMJ7 GÉANT, ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for HPC, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO), Free Software Foundation, Programming, Research in Bavaria

2025 is the international year of #quantumphysics, and you can expect intelligent contributions on a wide variety of topics from all directions and, of course, from our partner, Munich Quantum Valley: One of the first is the interview with physicist Jens Eisert from Freie Universität Berlin, lecturer at the MQV colloquium. He told Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg why he's interested in quantum physics: "Machine learning is currently changing the world, and #quantumcomputing is assumed to solve optimisation problems better. So the question is whether we can also improve machine learning with quantum computing." Exciting to listen: https://lnkd.in/d_G3aKCd (in German). Incidentally, you will find many more in-depth contributions to #Quantenjahr25 nearby. Enjoy your trip into the world of the smallest particles this weekend. #quantum, #quantumcomputer, quantum, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Europe,

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