In lots of areas today, research study and knowledge acquisition are reliant on ideal clinical computing facilities, referred to as high-performance computing (HPC). In North Rhine-Westphalia, the resources needed for this have actually up until now been supplied centrally at 13 sites, among them TU Dortmund University. LiDO4 is the 4th main “Linux HPC Cluster”, for which the Center for Data Science and Simulation (DoDaS) and the IT and Media Center (ITMC) at TU Dortmund University together secured funding. Around 400 researchers working in STEM topics (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at TU Dortmund University use this computing capacity for their research, above all to replicate estimations.
At the main event to mark LiDO4’s launch, Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, stated: “Research study and science are the feedstock of the future. In the digital age, we need computing power to leverage this feedstock. The State of North Rhine-Westphalia is working consistently to increase the centralized arrangement of computing capacity for our universities, which we urgently need in order to additional develop AI and other next-generation technologies. By so doing, we are creating conditions that allow researchers to work rapidly with accurate clinical data and promptly put their findings into practice. LiDO4 is among lots of high-performance computer systems that make our region a much more attractive hub for research study and science.”
LiDO4’s computing resources, like those of its three predecessors, are likewise at the disposal of Fachhochschule Dortmund (University of Applied Sciences and Art. “In addition to the EUR4.5 million from the DFG’s ‘Major Research Instrumentation’ financing program and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, a further EUR900,000 has already been bought updating LiDO4,” said Professor Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University. “These upgrades support the Research Centers of the University Alliance Ruhr, where we bundle our top-class global research study in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen.”