Consortium

The GWDG, as a limited liability company, is the computing and data centre of the University of Göttingen and the IT competence centre of the Max Planck Society. With more than 200 employees, it offers the entire spectrum of IT services to more than 100,000 users from all over Germany. Its services include the reliable provision of basic services such as collaborative tools, data storage and archiving, cloud services and server hosting. Research-related services are also represented, for example software services for data analysis and bioinformatics, software development for science, and especially scientific computing. These services are crucial “enablers” for science and are oriented towards the needs of researchers. In addition, the GWDG conducts its own research in the field of applied computer science in order to identify new topics at an early stage and expand the range of services accordingly. Scientific computing and HPC services have been provided by the GWDG since it was found in 1970. To this end, the GWDG operates several HPC systems, including the Tier2 system “Emmy”, in its role as a Centre for National High Performance Computing (NHR). It is also one of the two central HPC competence and operations centres of DLR, for which it operates “CARO”, the second top 500 system alongside “Emmy”.

The Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) was founded in 1831 and has around 29,000 students in the natural sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law and economics. More than 2,500 people work at the university in 9 faculties with around 160 departments and institutes. The excellence of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is demonstrated, among other things, by its participation in several clusters of excellence and by several ERC Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants.

The L3S research centre bundles relevant institutions and disciplines in Hannover and Braunschweig and thus forms an important crystallisation point and contact for all questions in the context of AI. The L3S works under the guiding theme of “Intelligent, Reliable and Responsible Systems” and is characterised by interdisciplinary, nationally and internationally visible research in many areas of computer science. Research foci include NLP, web science, digital signal processing, autoML, communication technology and knowledge graphs. Other members of the L3S come from the fields of law, sociology and philosophy. Seven of its members have successfully obtained ERC grants. L3S members are responsible for numerous DFG projects as well as applied research projects funded by BMBF, BMWi, ZIM, AIF and industry.

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is Germany’s national metrology institute, a global leader in measurement science and standardization. It ensures the accuracy of SI units, maintains legal time through atomic clocks, and operates advanced facilities such as the Metrology Light Source (MLS) in Berlin-Adlershof. For a quantum computing test centre, PTB’s expertise in precision measurement, quantum metrology, and calibration provides essential support for the development and validation of quantum technologies.