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With the Guest and Partner Management (GuP), KIT organizational units can provide their partners with the accounts and services necessary for collaboration. The GuP is an application in the User Portal (UP). |
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The KIT user account, also known as the KIT account, is the basis for many IT services in the KIT network for all KIT members. It provides access to systems and services and is generally used as a "login" in the KIT environment. |
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Self-service portal for students, employees, and guests and partners (GuP). This includes functions related to the personal KIT account, such as password change. |
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The backup service IBM SP (Spectrum Protect) provides KIT employees with the possibility of regular, automatic backup of Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers.
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The federal state service bwDataArchive offers a solution for long-term data archiving, which is especially available for employees of universities and public research institutions in Baden-Württemberg. Data archiving is carried out at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and includes reliable storage of even large data sets for a period of ten or more years. The service enables a qualified implementation of the recommendations of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the securing and storage of research data. |
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The state service bwSync&Share is an online storage service for employees and students of universities and colleges in Baden-Württemberg. It has been operated at KIT since January 1, 2014 and enables users to synchronize or exchange their data between different computers, mobile devices, and users.
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The OU directory is a centrally broad-based, highly available data repository for OU-specific data for an organizational unit (OU) of KIT.
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The personal directory is a highly available and central data storage for personal data and documents. The repository is available to all KIT employees, but cannot be shared with other users. |
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The service "LSDF Online Storage" offers users of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology access to a large scale disk data storage which is intended in particular for the storage of scientific measurement data and simulation results of data-intensive scientific disciplines. The LSDF Online Storage is operated by Scientific Computing Center.
Several protocols can be used to access the data: SCP, NFS, CIFS, WebDAV. The data is backed up and protected in a state-of-the-art manner from various types of disasters (without direct user access to the backed up copies). The service is not suitable for storing personal, commercial or other non-scientific data. |
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PostgreSQL is a widely used, object-relational database management system (DBMS). The SCC operates the open source product on its own server systems and offers KIT employees the possibility to use PostgreSQL databases for official purposes. |
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The RDM@KIT service team sees itself as a partner of science and research. We support you at KIT with services for sustainable research data management, starting with the application of scientific projects up to publication and archiving. |
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Statistics and data analysis software
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The Computational and Data Scientific consulting offers support for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC) users. Requests can be submitted to the simulation and data life cycle labs as well as the software sustainability and performance engineering team through the designated voucher system, depending on the scope of the support and the subject area. Upon acceptance of a voucher project, requestors will receive professional support from HPC-DIC specialists at SCC. |
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The Helmholtz AI Consultants support researchers with expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) as a service, offering their diverse knowledge on applied AI and data science methods. Within the scope of consulting, the application possibilities of artificial intelligence methods for research questions are evaluated, customized AI solutions are developed, scientists are coached in recurring meetings on AI topics, or training courses are conducted.
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This service offers the complete Grid related User Support infrastructure of the EGI and WLCG project.
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The service GridKa-CA was abondoned 2023. The GridKa-CA will no longer issue grid certificates. KIT will act as a registration authority from DFN. KIT members can request Grid certificates from the DFN certification authority GridGermany . |
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The Computing Element (CE) is running computing jobs at GridKa.
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SCC gives KIT users access to High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC) infrastructures. SCC itself operates several computer systems (bwUniCluster 2.0, HoreKa) for different user groups. In addition, KIT scientists can use the bwForClusters within the framework of the bwHPC federation. The SCC also advises on applications for computing time on supra-regional high-performance computers (Tier-2), such as the HoreKa, or on the national supercomputers (Tier-1) of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (JSC, HLRS, LRZ).
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Compilers and tools for software development. |
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Consulting and support for technical-scientific software at KIT |
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Provision and operation of the infrastructure to enable video conferencing for committees and KIT facilities. The BigBlueButton (BBB) software package is used. |
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Videoconferencing service, for example, to hold project meetings with research colleagues or project partners and to look through documents online or to hold events with a partner institute at a national or international level. |
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In the pilot phase, this service only supports a limited number of courses. It is only accessible to teachers and students of KIT and offers a low-threshold tool for programming, data processing and visualization.
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eduroam (education roaming) is an international Wi-Fi internet access roaming service for users in research, higher education and further education. The KIT has been a member of the eduroam network since its inception. With eduroam it is possible for employees and students of participating institutions to have a secure WiFi access to the local WLAN at all participating institution for the use of eduroam. |
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Das SCC betreibt Umgebungen am KIT-Campus Nord und KIT-Campus Süd, die es KIT-Einrichtungen (KIT-OEs) ermöglichen, dort virtualisierte Serversysteme vServer), zu betreiben.
Beratung bzgl. Ausstattung/Umfang/Management eines vServers oder eines Ressourcenpools innerhalb der Virtualisierungsumgebung. |
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The state service bwCloud SCOPE (Science, Operations and Education) provides virtualized server and application infrastructures as a cloud service for employees, scientists and students at universities and colleges in Baden-Württemberg. bwCloud can operate over 1,000 virtual machines with individual operating systems and software at each operating location. The service runs on dedicated server systems at the four operating sites in Mannheim, Ulm, Freiburg and Karlsruhe - that is a total of at least 4,000 virtual machines for the distributed operation of servers and applications, enough resources for numerous projects. |
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The easy-to-use, collaborative, online LaTeX editor Overleaf is available to all KIT employees and students. This software is a cloud service at overleaf.com. A portal has been set up for the KIT: www.overleaf.com/edu/kit |
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The KIT-wide personal communications directory is provided by the SCC and offers both a self-service in the employee portal (my.scc.kit.edu) to edit one's own communication data and a search mask for a search in the communication data of all employees, guests and partners. |
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The SCC is running the web content management system Open Text Website Management (formerly RedDot) for websites of KIT institutions. The term Content Management System (CMS) describes systems that allow the separation of editorial content, i.e. texts and images, and their presentation in the form of a layout and navigation structure.
The CMS Open Text Website Management enables easy creation and editing of web pages without programming knowledge and provides templates (standard frames) for this purpose. The templates can be changed in parts and thus form an individual appearance in KIT's corporate design. |
