Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller
Chairman of the Board of Directors of LRZ
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) stands at the forefront of its field as a world-class IT service and computing user facility serving Munich’s top universities and colleges as well as research institutions in Bavaria, Germany and Europe. As an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, LRZ has provided a robust, holistic IT infrastructure for its users throughout the scientific community for nearly sixty years. It offers the complete range of resources, services, consulting and support – from email, web servers and Internet access to virtual machines, cloud solutions, data storage and the Munich Scientific Network (MWN).
Home to SuperMUC-NG, LRZ is part of Germany’s Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and serves as part of the nation’s backbone for the advanced research and discovery possible through high-performance computing (HPC). In addition to current systems, LRZ’s Future Computing Group focuses on the evaluation of emerging Exascale-class architectures and technologies, development of highly scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and system integration of quantum acceleration with supercomputing systems.
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“We are very happy to take part in this project which will set standards for web search, in a world where openness and transparency play a crucial role – in particular as basic values for Europe. The project not only matches our role as IT service provider, but also alignes well with Open Science and Open Data efforts at Munich.”
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller
Chairman of the Board of Directors of LRZ
“In OpenWebSearch.eu, LRZ contributes ample expertise in IT and management domains as a Supercomputing Centre and IT service provider. Remarkably, 60 years jubilee of the Centre features the birth of this fascinating European collaboration. My team, among others, continues with management and coordination activities, which started already at the proposal phase.”
Dr. Megi Sharikadze
Lead of the LRZ Research Coordination and Support Team
“Together with our strong collaborators, we will offer top-notch IT infrastructure to support OpenWebSearch.eu‘s core web-search and big data workflows. We will leverage on technological results from existing collaborations, such as the terrabyte project (DLR, LRZ) and the LEXIS workflow-/data-platform project (H2020 GA 825532; IT4Innovations, LRZ and more).”
Dr. Stephan Hachinger
Lead of the LRZ Research Data Management Team
