Information: GWDG availability at Pentecost

    by GWDG News Team

    Message-Id: 202005290805 Time: 31.05. - 01.06.2020 Affected: Users of the GWDG Impact: Reduced availabiltiy of the GWDG service hotline

    The GWDG service hotline will not be available on 31.05. and 01.06.2020. If you need to contact the GWDG please use our support website or send an e-mail to support@gwdg.de . The ticket system will be checked regularly. We ask all users to be prepared for this.

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    New Services available in the AcademicCloud: GWDG Meet, Chat, Dataverse

    by GWDG News Team

    In the last few weeks we have received requests from various parties for additional services in the AcademicCloud. In our effort to support other universities in Lower-Saxony in times of COVID-19, we have therefore extended the offerings for the AcademicCloud by three new services: Meet, Chat and Repository.

    The services will be available to all universities in Lower-Saxony from 19.05.2020, as usual, via the portal https://academiccloud.de . The AcademicCloud is a joint infrastructure of the LANIT/RZ of the More….

    Online event of the eResearch Lab on 12.05.2020

    by GWDG News Team

    On May 12, 2020 from 9-10 am, the Göttingen eResearch Alliance (eRA) will perform a test of an online training workshop on Research Data Management through BigBlueButton in the context of the “eResearch Lab”. The topics of the training will cover the activities of the eResearch Alliance as well as an introduction and motivation of several aspects of research data management.

    We would be glad to welcome many participants, so no registration is required. If you want to take part, just join this channel shortly before 9 am on 12.05.2020: More….

    April/May issue of the GWDG News published

    by GWDG News Team

    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

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    50th birthday of the GWDG

    by GWDG News Team
    It is exactly 50 years ago that the State of Lower Saxony on behalf of the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Society established the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen – GWDG for short – in a founding meeting. And even today, the construct of a computer and IT competence centre for science and research, co-financed by two associates, is still both a very successful and extraordinary concept: the synergies in the operation of modern high-performance computers, cloud services, tailor-made IT systems and applications, networks and a great number of other More….