Consortium

Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen

The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) is the computing and data center of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the IT competence center of the Max Planck Society. With over 200 employees, it provides the full range of IT services to more than 100,000 users across Germany. Its services include the reliable provision of core infrastructure such as collaborative tools, data storage and archiving, cloud services, and server hosting. It also offers research-related services, including software services for data analysis and bioinformatics, software development for science, and, in particular, scientific computing.

These services are mission-critical enablers for science and are oriented toward researchers' needs. In addition, GWDG conducts its own research in applied computer science to identify emerging topics early and expand its service offerings accordingly. GWDG has provided scientific computing and HPC services since its founding in 1970. It operates several HPC systems, including the Tier 2 system Emmy, in its role as a center for national high-performance computing (NHR). It is also one of two central HPC competence and operations centers for the DLR, for which it operates CARO — alongside Emmy, the second Top 500 system it runs.

Leibniz University Hannover

LUH was founded in 1831 and has around 29,000 students in the natural and engineering sciences, humanities and social sciences, and law and economics. The university employs more than 2,500 people across 9 faculties with around 160 departments and institutes. The excellence of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is reflected in, among other things, its participation in several excellence clusters and numerous ERC Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants.

L3S Research Center

The L3S Research Center brings together relevant institutions and disciplines in Hannover and Braunschweig, serving as a key hub and point of contact for all questions in the context of AI. L3S works under the guiding theme of intelligent, reliable, and responsible systems, and is characterized by interdisciplinary research with national and international visibility across many areas of computer science. Research focus areas include NLP, web science, digital signal processing, autoML, communications engineering, and knowledge graphs. Further L3S members come from the fields of law, sociology, and philosophy. Seven of its members have successfully secured ERC grants, and L3S members are responsible for numerous DFG projects as well as applied research projects funded by the BMBF, BMWi, ZIM, AIF, and industry.

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is Germany's national metrology institute and a world leader in measurement science and standards. It ensures the accuracy of SI units, maintains legal time using atomic clocks, and operates state-of-the-art facilities such as the Metrology Light Source (MLS) in Berlin-Adlershof.

For a quantum computing test center, PTB's expertise in precision measurement, quantum metrology, and calibration provides indispensable support for the development and validation of quantum technologies.