Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
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Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
Dr. Thomas Eickermann Phone: +49 2461 61-6596 Fax: +49 2461 61-6656 email: th.eickermann@fz-juelich.de |
The division is responsible for planning, realizing and operating the campus-wide communication networks of the research centre as well as the connections to external networks. It provides communication services and applications and performs central tasks in the IT-security process of the research centre. The activities comprise:
Tasks regarding the IT security are:
Research & Development in the network and IT security area are focused on the development and exploitation of concepts and methods of communication and networking techniques and services.
Supercomputers process extreme amounts of data at high speed. This creates extreme demands also for networks, ranging from interconnects inside the HPC systems, the attachment of mass storage, the data centre integration, the connection to users on campus and world-wide, and last but not least the networks between HPC centres in German and European cooperations such as GCS, DEISA, and PRACE. These requirements often push current technologies to its limits. Therefore, JSC does not only plan and operate the data networks of the Research Centre – for HPC as well as for the campus network JuNet, but also conducts research and development in communications networks. Essential parts of this work is performed in the context of third party funded projects and cooperations, which enables the JSC to play a driving role in Europe also in this area of supercomputing.
Activities include
Thanks to the know-how gained in these activities, JSC is e.g. responsible for the following tasks: