Consultants Meetings

The consultants usually meet twice a year in person either at one of the sites or at one of the tier-3 compute centers that are part of the HLRN-network.

Together with representatives of the different HLRN boards (administrative, scientific and technical board including the advisory board for information security) a variety of topics are discussed, including technical developments, concerns of the users as well as operational issues of the system. Especially important are:

• new procurements (of HLRN systems as well as the local tier 3 systems),
• different aspects of system security
• developments in preparation and organization of new software for the users, the batch system, compilers, libraries, as well as news from HLRN affiliated projects
• Coordination with representatives of the system sites of Zuse-Institute Berlin and the University of Götttingen/GWDG