Decentral Systems

The PC˛ assists all groups of the University of Paderborn in planning their local compute services. In general, a sharing of all available compute resources is targeted. The PC˛ provides help in procurement and installation of compute servers.

 

Procurement


Compute servers:
Consulting and surveying of configurations of computer systems for performance oriented computations.
Recommendation concerning the selection of suitable systems and components.

Dr. Jens Simon

Software:
Organisation of a community with shared licenses for HPC software. Joint procurement of software.


Management of software licensens:
The PC˛ operates license servers.  These servers can also be used for licenses owned by users.


Besides procurement of systems, the PC˛ also provides support for the initial installation of compute servers.

 

Initial Installation


Resource management software:
The PC˛ offers a resource management system. Consulting and support for a resource mangement system for compute servers.

Axel Keller

University-wide file system:
Consulting and support for a university-wide file system.

Andreas Krawinkel

Network connection:
Consulting and support for network connection to the central compute resources. Configuration of security systems to allow shared usage of local compute servers.

Holger Nitsche

HPC Systems & Services