On April 27, 2021, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), together with the Gauss Alliance and the University of Göttingen as well as the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), will organize a conference on current developments in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). The conference will take place as an online event.

Further information:

• GWDG Press Release 1/2021 from 21.04.2021

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

MessageID: 202104130750 Time: 15.04.2021, 5:00 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Affected: Trouble Ticket System GOTRS Impact: ticket processing possible, GOTRS web interface accessable

The maintenance work on the trouble ticket system GOTRS of the GWDG has been completed. Unfortunately, they lasted longer than planned due to unexpected problems.The system is fully available again.

MessageID: 202104130750 Time: 15.04.2021, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Affected: Trouble Ticket System GOTRS Impact: ticket processing delayed, GOTRS web interface unaccessable

On 15.04.2021 between 5:00 p.m. and approx. 7:00 p.m. the GWDG trouble ticket system GOTRS will be under maintenance. While it still will be possible to send requests as usual to our service hotline at support@gwdg.de, no automatic responses or ticket processing will take place, so some delays may be expected. Additionally the GOTRS web interface https://support.gwdg.de will be unavailable during maintenance. In matters of

The new president of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Professor Dr. Metin Tolan, will take office on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7 p.m. in a ceremonial event. Due to the pandemic, the event will be broadcast live from the Aula am Wilhelmsplatz.

Dr. Valérie Schüller, Vice President for Finance and Human Resources and currently acting President of the University, will welcome the guests. This will be followed by speeches by Stephan Weil, Minister President of Lower Saxony, Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider, Chairman of the Foundation Council of the University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Stefan