Scientific IT Systems

Fields of Activity:

Strategic Planning

• HPC systems / compute servers / storage systems
• System integration / virtualization solutions

Cluster Middleware

• Optimization of application programs for parallel processing using MPI or OpenMP
• Optimization of programs for multi-core or GPU environments

Process Data Processing

• Design, development and implementation of hard- and software components for acquisition, transfer and processing of data in scientific environments
• Development of visualization systems for real-time environments and applications with sophisticated requirements for 3D graphics
• Development of device drivers for instruments
• Development of control system software and graphical user interfaces

Common System Development

• Creation of Web applications for the script-based generation of homepages for the Forschungszentrum Jülich internet portal
• Web based database applications

Education

• Care of the trainees (Mathematical-technical Software Developers, linked with the Bachelor Study Course Scientific Programming or Master Study Course Techno-mathematics)
• Mentoring of seminar, bachelor or master theses

Advisory Service

• for problems related to UNIX-based Operating Systems (Linux, Mac OS X) and software components
• for acquisition of PCs, laptops, printers and hardware for controlling scientific instruments
• for questions regarding data evaluation, numerical applications and mathematical libraries
• for questions regarding the LaTeX typesetting system
• for problems in image processing
• for adapting existing software to use the standard libraries available on campus

Network Management

• Point of contact for matters related to the network infrastructure and IT-security (in collaboration with the respective external departments)

User Management

• Administration of accounts and resources for employees and guests for the computing clusters