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The team Scientific IT Systems is part of the department of Technical and Administrative Infrastructure (PGI/JCNS-TA). The staff supports researchers at researchers at Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Institute of Complex Systems (ICS), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI) and Ernst Ruska Centre (ER-C) with IT-technical problems and both plan and operate highly available server and storage systems for the HPC-Cluster and scientific desktop computers. Also part of the core tasks are optimization of programs for special processor architectures and the development of dedicated controlling and visualization systems for experiment and process data processing.

Responsible for:

  • 1480 active user accounts (iffldap)
  • 1113 external guests (ifflogin)

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
    • Mentoring of trainees (Bachelor of Science course Applied Mathematics and Informatics, linked with a Mathematical-technical Software Developer training)
    • Mentoring of students (Master of Science course Applied Mathematics and Informatics)
    • Mentoring of term papers, Bachelor's and Master's theses
  • Advisory Service
    • for problems related to UNIX-based Operating Systems (Linux,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 (Junet VLAN 168 and PGI-Labor1 VLAN 145) and IT-security (in collaboration with ITSB and JSC-CERT)
  • User Management
    • Administration of accounts and resources for employees and guests for the compute clusters

Staff

Name Skills
Josef Heinen Server systems, Realtime Data Processing, Visualization systems
Elmar Westphal HPC systems, GPU-Programming
Markus Consoir Server systems, desktop and mobile device management
Florian Rhiem OpenGL- and WebGL-Programming
Ingo Meyer C-, Python-, GUI- and Graphics-Programming (Qt)
Daniel Kaiser C-, Python- and Web-Programming
Thomas Verbovsek C-, Python- and Web-Programming

mailto:pgiadmin@fz-juelich.de

9 students for “Mathematics and Computer Science” (or related courses)

MSc students: Ole Köpke, Kim Nguyen, Maximilian Heuwes, Jonas Mölle, Torben Moll

BSc students: Jannik Streitberg, Lukas Engering, Gereon Vincenti, Moritz Velde