GWDG-News

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Project “Clustered E-Assessment“
• The Path to a Sustainable Data Center
• Choosing the Appropriate Persistent Identifier: PID4NFDI’s Selection Tool
• AI Perspectives in Lower Saxony

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The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Collaborative Work in the Browser: CoCalc as a New Platform for Research and Teaching

• Simple and Secure Remote Access with eduVPN

• NHR Roadshow Success Report: Increased Visibility and Higher Demand

• 55 Years GWDG – IT in Science

• Anniversary Celebration at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2025

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The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Scaling Skills: EVITA Trains the Minds Behind Europe’s Supercomputers

• LimeSurvey Relaunch: Surveys in the AcademicCloud

• Two Major HPC Events in Göttingen

• 25 Years Active Directory at the GWDG

• Creating a Reusable Execution Environment Using a Software Bill of Materials

• Sustainable Networking of Heterogeneous Film Collections – Project „AVefi“ Starts Second Funding Phase

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The September/October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• LLM Benchmarking for Medical Applications

• LLMs as Post-OCR Correctors – Fixing Errors in Digitized Texts Using AI

• Ethical AI: Navigating AI through an Ambiguous Concept

• The Project “InventarWorkerService” for IT Specialist Apprentices at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 9-10/2025

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The April/May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Multi-Factor-Authentication at the GWDG
• Collaboard: Secure Online Whiteboard for Education and Research
• The GÉANT TCS PKI Backend – Scripts for Routine Tasks of DRAOs
• HPC Filesystems and a Suggested Data Workflow
• A Secure Workflow for Shared HPC Systems

>> Click here for the GWDG News 4-5/2022

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• The New Working Group “Computing“
• Open-Xchange: New GWDG E-Mail System
• Possible Applications of X.509 Certificates – Part 4: Automated Creation of Server Certificates with Bot Software

>> Click here for the GWDG News 3/2022

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• First HPC Workshop Week 2021
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 5: Certificate Management
• New Apprenticeship Offer at the GWDG
• New Information Banner for the Supercomputer “Emmy“

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2022

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Services for Research Data Management
• Event Management with Indico
• The GÉANT TCS PKI Backend for DRAOs

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2021

The October/November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG Focuses on Climate-friendly IT Operation
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 4: Setup a PostgreSQL Cluster
• Leveraging Data Lakes for Managing and Processing of Large Data Volumes
• Next Exit Transformation – A Look at IT at the MPS in Transition
• Meeting of the Institute Administrators

>> Click here for the GWDG News 10-11/2021

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Microsoft 365 with Office for the University of Göttingen
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 3: Deploy a Workload
• Mapping of SKOS Vocabularies with Cocoda on the Example of Education Metadata

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2021

The June/July issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New Joint Data Centre on Göttingen Campus
• Improving Protection against Forged Sender Information in E-Mails
• New Service “FileSender“ in Open Test Operation
• GWDG Supports Pilot Project “BIRD” for National Education Platform
• GWDG at ISC High Performance 2021
• Göttingen Campus Institutions Involved in Five More NFDI Consortia

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6-7/2021

The May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Online Surveys with LimeSurvey at the GWDG: Upcoming Relaunch
• Koha at the GWDG – First Library Catalogue is Online
• E-Mail-Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 6: Private Certificates with the Program “Volksverschlüsselung“
• Comparing Two Approaches for DB2 Reorganization in the Scope of IBM Spectrum Protect

>> Click here for the GWDG News 5/2021

The April issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Big Data and High Performance Computing
• Further Revision of the Application Procedure for User Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 2: Setup and Deployment
• Stable References for Research Data

>> Click here for the GWDG News 4/2021

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Migration of the SharePoint Environment of the GWDG
• Possible Applications of X.509 Certificates – Part 3: The Programm GUIRA
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 1: Basic Concepts
• New Group “Curricula“ founded in the DINI-AG KIM

>> Click here for the GWDG News 3/2021

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• End to the Requirement to Change Passwords After a Set Period of Time
• Using Graphical Interfaces on the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster
• C# 9 Top-level Statements
• Open Forecast – an HPC Open Data Forecast Service

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2021

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New Service URL Shortener
• New Storage Strategy for koala
• Dotfiles per Git Repository
• Possible Applications of X.509 Certificates – Part 2: The Tasks of a Registration Authority
• Graduation Project for an Apprenticeship at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2020

The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• HLRN-IV Phase 2 in Göttingen in Operation
• Supercomputer “Emmy” in Göttingen is North Germany’s Fastest Computer
• Göttingen Becomes a Center for National High-Performance Computing
• E-Mail-Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 5: Thunderbird, Notes and Mutt
• IT Meeting of the Max Planck Institutes
• MINE – a Text and Data Mining Platform

>> Click here for the GWDG News 11/2020

The September/October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Metadata Harvesting on the Platform “WirLernenOnline“
• GWDG Participates in the Open Education Portal “WirLernenOnline”
• Five NFDI Consortia with Participation of the Göttingen Campus Launched
• Possible Applications of X.509 Certificates – Part 1: Server Certificates
• Automated Application for Server Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• Graduation Project for an Apprenticeship at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 9-10/2020

The July/August issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Göttingen Research Online – a Portal for Central Data Related Services
• E-Mail-Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 4: Apple E-Mail Applications
• Completion of the European Project “Up to University“ (Up2U)
• Modern Web-Frontend Techniques

>> Click here for the GWDG News 7-8/2020

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• AcademicCloud News
• Plagiarism Prevention Services
• Teaching with Microsoft Teams
• Programming Exercises with Unity in Times of Corona
• ProfiT-HPC on the Home Stretch

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2020

Note on the printed version of issue 6/2020: Unfortunately, the printed version could not be sent out due to the current restrictions caused by the Corona crisis. This will be done as soon as this is possible.

The April/May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Tools and Services of the GWDG for Mobile Working during the Corona Crisis
• Chat and Videoconferencing with Microsoft Teams
• Introduction to the Use of Rocket.Chat
• Migration of TSM Instances and SP 8 Upgrade
• Revision of the New Application Procedure for User Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• 50th Birthday of the GWDG
• GWDG Engages with ownCloud for Digital Teaching at Schools in Times of Corona
• New Video Identification within the DFN-PKI
• The Göttingen eResearch Alliance – an Update

>> Click here for the GWDG News 4-5/2020

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• External Monitoring of GWDG Services
• E-Mail Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 3: Outlook E-Mail Applications
• New Stratum 1 NTP Server

>> Click here for the GWDG News 3/2020

Note on the printed version of issue 3/2020: Unfortunately, the printed version could not be sent out due to the restrictions caused by the current COVID 19 crisis. This will be made up for in due course.

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG Academy Launched
• End-to-End Performance Monitoring of a GWDG Service – an Example
• How do We Work in the Future? – Modern Workspace at the GWDG
• Migration of jupyter.gwdg.de
• E-Mail Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 2: Installation and Distribution of Certificates

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2020

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• FAIR Principles and Digital Objects
• E-Mail Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 1: Application and Securing of Certificates
• Cloud Encryption with Cryptomator for iOS
• New Hard- and Software in the User Room

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2019

The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG-HPC: Transition from LSF to Slurm
• Mailing lists - New and Old information from the GWDG List Server
• Euro-Par 2019 in Göttingen
• GWDG @ Science goes City
• Visit of the IMPRS Neurosciences
• Eleven Digitalization Professorships for the University of Göttingen and the HAWK

>> Click here for the GWDG News 11/2019

The October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following Topics:

• Important Change for E-Mail Filtering
• EU Project “Open Forecast“ Taps Open Data for New Applications
• OER and IT Summercamp of the Project “JOINTLY“
• IT Meeting of the Max Planck Institutes
• Meeting of the Institute Administrators
• Graduation Project for an Apprenticeship at the GWDG

>> Click here for the GWDG News 10/2019

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following Topics:

• New Application Procedure for User Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• Digital Sovereignty and Open Source
• Data Analytics Tools on the Scientific Compute Cluster
• Data Science Summer School 2019
• Euro-Par 2019 in Göttingen

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2019

The July issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following Topics:

• Koha at the GWDG
• Merging of the Single Sign-on for GWDG and AcademicCloud Services
• Current State of the Central System Monitoring with openITCOCKPIT
• WLAN Configuration under FreeBSD
• GWDG at the IdeenExpo 2019

>> Click here for the GWDG News 7/2019

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following Topics:

• Remote Usage of Computers – Rules, Dangers, Remidial Actions
• Expiration of Generation 1 of the DFN-PKI Global
• New Version of the IdM Portal
• Reliability of Tape Storage Media
• LAPS – Local Administrator Password Solution

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2019

The May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following Topics:

• Using E-Mail for Cybercrime
• Plagiarism Prevention Services
• Xfce – An Interesting Desktop Alternative?
• Bachelor Thesis for an Integrated Degree Program at the GWDG
• News from Euro-Par 2019

>> Click here for the GWDG News 5/2019

The April issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New Joint Data Centre on Göttingen Campus
• Support of Windows 7 will end after Ten Years
• Important Change in the Use of eduroam
• Wolfram Mathematica and the GWDG HPC Cluster – Tips for a Quick Start

>> Click here for the GWDG News 4/2019

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Storage Services of the GWDG in Comparision – Part 1: the Popular Services
• CodiMD as Alternative Realtime Editor
• Visit of the International Max Planck Research School for Genome Science
• GWDG at the GöBit 2019
• DDoS Attacks and Detection Techniques

>> Click here for the GWDG News 3/2019

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published. It contains among others the following topics:

• FAQ about the Worldwide Dataleak “Collection #1 - #5“
• Expiration of Generation 1 of the DFN-PKI Global
• Recent and Upcoming Changes for the Network Backbone
• Backup of Large File Systems Using ISP/TSM
• CloudMob – a Cloud-based Mobile Big Data Processing Platform
• GWDG at the 4th Night of Science
• SAP Intelligent Enterprise Truck in Göttingen

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2019

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published. It contains among others the following Topics:

• GWDG Cloud Server – Part 2: Getting Started in the Cloud
• Enhancing Assurance Level in a Federated Environment through a Central Proxy
• HLRN-IV: User Training and Consultant Meeting
• HPC Conference “Euro-Par 2018“ in Turin

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2018

The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG´s Samba Service
• Meeting of the Institute Administrators
• The DFG Project “GFBio“ – a Central Point of Contact for the Management of Research Data in the Biolology and Environmental Science

>> Click here for the GWDG News 11/2018

The October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG Cloud Server – Part 1: Basics and Access Possibilities
• Current State of GWDG’s StorNext Environment
• Free Use of Digital HERDT Media for the University of Göttingen
• Taskwarrior – Managing Tasks by a Command Line Tool

>> Click here for the GWDG News 10/2018

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New Service “PostgreSQL“
• Using the Enhancement Options of Microsoft PowerShell for IT Specialist Apprenticeship
• International Summer School on Data Science 2018
• Completion of the MIKELANGELO Project
• Ending of the EU Horizon 2020 Project “NEPHELE“

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2018

The July issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Cooperation between Göttingen University, DLR and GWDG in the Field of HPC
• TSM/ISP Updates
• GWDG successful certified according to EN ISO 9001:2015
• Lower Saxony‘s Universities build up their own Cloud Infrastructure
• Migration of GWDG Cloud Share to GWDG ownCloud
• Digital Long-term Archiving for the DNB with koala

>> Click here for the GWDG News 7/2018

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• New joint Data Centre on Göttingen Campus
• Checking and Saving in the Batch Upload of BExIS++
• Research Data Alliance – A Global Initiative for Standards in Research Data
• Improvements on Backing up StorNext Filesystems
• Continuous Delivery for the GWDG Customer Portal

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2018

The May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Attention Phishing!
• New Websites for Bioinformatics Software
• New Strategies for Data Storage Areas
• Hands-on-Workshop „Data Mining“

>> Click here for the GWDG News 5/2018

The April issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Massaging Service “Rocket.Chat”
• Graduation project for an apprenticeship at the GWDG
• HLRN-IV in Berlin and Göttingen
• Development of GPU Applications with OpenCL

>> Click here for the GWDG News 4/2018

The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Collaborative Source Code Management with GitLab
• GWDG ownCloud: Upgrade to Version X
• New Supercomputer HLRN-IV
• Spectre and Meltdown
• Plagiarism Prevention Services
• Thread Scheduling onMulti-core Systems

>> Click here for the GWDG News 3/2018

The January/February issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• International Max Planck Research School for Genome Science
• New Service “Client Management for macOS and iOS”
• Free Use of digital HERDT Media for the University Göttingen
• Single Sign-on for GWDG Services
• Introduction to the HLRN for GWDG Users
• Information Security at Göttingen Campus

>> Click here for the GWDG News 1-2/2018

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published. It contains among others the following Topics:

• The bhyve Hypervisor
• Audio Unit Programming
• The most frequent requests regarding GWDG’s list server

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2017

The November issue of the GWDG News has just been published.It contains among others the following Topics:

• vSphere-AutoDeploy
• Numerically Intensive Simulations on an Integrated Compute Infrastructure
• Euro-Par 2019 in Göttingen
• 34th IT Meeting of the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen

>> Click here for the GWDG News 11/2017

The October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.It contains among others the following topics:

• New Service “Jupyter”
• UNIX logon servers reissued
• The European Project „Up to University“ (Up2U)
• POBRES – Policy-Based-Re-Encryption Schema for Secure Resource Management in Clouds

>> Click here for the GWDG News 10/2017

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.It contains among others the following topics:

• E-Mail Service Update to Exchange 2016
• Windows Server Update Service
• TSM Scripts
• PID/DOI in the Batch Upload of BExIS++
• First International Data Science Summer School in Göttingen

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2017

The July issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

 It contains among others the following topics:

• GWDG File Service: Problems, Evolution, Current Structure and Next Steps
• ISP Backup: New Rules for orphaned Backups
• E-Mail Signing Gateway
• Galaxy – a flexible GUI of Bioinformatics Programs
• meet.gwdg.de
• GWDG @ ISC 2017

>> Click here for the GWDG News 7/2017

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

 It contains among others the following topics:

• A wide Range of Statistics Programs on GWDG Servers
• Programming Exercises for GWDG Trainees
• Secure Data Center Interconnects
• Use of the Printserver gwd-winprint.top.gwdg.de with macOS

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2017