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
Contact
Josef Heinen
Tel: +49 2461 61-3912
Fax: +49 2461 61-2542
