The GWDG also conducts its own research and is collaborating with numerous researchers nationally and internationally.
The projects benefit from more than 50 years of GWDG’s experience as an IT provider for scientific institutions and as
an independent research institution, that focusses on Practical and Applied Computer Science. In general, we develop
methods and tools for computationally or data intensive science in diverse research fields as well as digital
infrastructures for collaborative research.
Current Projectes
Automated network system for audiovisual collections via standardised film identifiers (AVefi)
In the project “Automated network system for audiovisual collections via standardised film identifiers” (AV-EFI), film-holding institutes are working together with infrastructure providers to establish a central PID-based interconnection system. The networking of metadata from different sources is a general goal, which is now to be established with the project in the area of audiovisual collections. The establishment of such a network system not only addresses film and media studies, but also provides interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies with new access to the cultural heritage of our society.
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contact@av-efi.netCRC1528: Cognition of Interaction
The project examines how perception, attention, action planning, and decision-making support social interactions, focusing on dynamic interactions between individuals to understand behavior and neuronal processes.
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research@gwdg.deCulture Cloud
The Culture Cloud project addresses the challenge of fragmented and heterogeneous cultural data, which is currently distributed across multiple institutions, stored in varying formats, and in part inaccessible. The project’s central objective is to develop a unified infrastructure that integrates these disparate sources, enabling secure storage as well as seamless findability and searchability of cultural data across Lower Saxony.
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research@gwdg.deDevice-Edge-Cloud Intelligent Collaboration framEwork (DECICE)
The DECICE project was created in response to an EU Horizon research and innovation programme calling for the development of a cognitive cloud system. Such a system should be able to integrate cloud, HPC and edge resources and optimize their usage. Furthermore, machine learning based schedulers will automatically optimize the placement of workloads across the heterogeneous hardware landscape managed by it. As part of this project, challenges must be solved regarding the integration of distinct hardware architectures into a unified platform as well as building a process for gathering metrics and finding near optimal scheduling decisions in a reasonable amount of time while also scaling to thousands of nodes across multiple data centers and countries.
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julian.kunkel@gwdg.deEVITA
The Project European Virtual Training Academy (EViTA) focuses on advancing the existing project HPC SPECTRA in terms of the training platform, which is part of the HPC in Europe portal, as well as opening calls for modules, which are singular training content that can be freely accessed and combined into various courses.The developed material is peer-reviewed, freely available, and follows the skill tree and a framework. The EViTA consortium will develop exams and certificates to assess the students’ HPC-related abilities.
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research@gwdg.deHammerHAI
The HammerHAI AI factory provides companies, research institutions, and start-ups across Europe with centralized, modern AI infrastructure, services, and support for developing and deploying AI solutions. The offering is ideally suited for highly sensitive data and data with high security requirements, as it guarantees confidentiality, integrity, and
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research@gwdg.deHPC Skills Platform and European Collaboration for Training (HPC SPECTRA)
The HPC Skills Platform and European Collaboration for Training (HPC SPECTRA) is a project funded by the EuroHPC JU under the grant 101136267, and it has the goal to establish a platform that manages all trainings conducted in Europe as well as co-organize the Internation HPC Summer School (IHPCSS) and fund European Students attending it.
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research@gwdg.deIAM4NFDI
IAM4NFDI is designed as a central basic service within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) to provide researchers with easy and secure access to services across institutional boundaries.
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research@gwdg.deJUPYTER4NFDI
Jupyter4NFDI is a project to create a basic NFDI (https://base4nfdi.de/, https://www.nfdi.de/) service that enables the use of the many existing JupyterHubs at partner institutions and beyond via a central hub, thus facilitating access to Jupyter technology and available computing resources, including HPC. In addition, a variety of software environments and notebook-based tools can be made available through this infrastructure and used particularly easily, as users do not have to deal with installation or maintenance.
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pid4nfdi@lists.nfdi.deKI-Servicezentrum für sensible und kritische Infrastrukturen (KISSKI)
The goal of KISSKI is to establish an AI-servicecenter that provides everything necessary for developing and deploying AI based solutions. This includes data via prepared trainings data and pre-trained models, expertise via training, consulting and support, hardware including HPC systems and specialized hardware as well as infrastructure using Kubernetes to enable serverless, AI-as-a-Service deployments.
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Since 2005 the GWDG has been a cooperation partner of the “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” (German National Library) in the field of digital preservation. The DNB is mandated by the Law „Gesetz über die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek“ (DNBG) to collect, index, record and archive german publications. As part of this partnership, the software “koala” was developed by the GWDG.
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benedikt.wegmann@gwdg.deNFDI4Biodiversity
NFDI4Biodiversity is a consortium under the umbrella of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) dedicated to the mobilising biodiversity and environmental data for collective use.
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National Research Data Infrastructure for and with Computer Science
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Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are of central importance to FAIR research data management. However, different research disciplines and different resources result in diverse requirements. Also, the 27 NFDI consortia have different levels of maturity in PID implementation. PID4NFDI will design a work programme to build an NFDI foundation service on established PID infrastructures.
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pid4nfdi@lists.nfdi.deQuantum Innovation and Computing for SMEs (QUICS)
The goal of QUICS is to establish a quantum computing service hub that provides the necessary resources for SMEs to explore and deploy quantum-based solutions. This includes access to quantum simulators and emulators, expertise via specialized training and consulting, and integration with high-performance computing (HPC) systems to enable hybrid quantum-classical workflows.
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Development of a distributed infrastructure for speech language and text data
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