Center for Information Services and HPC, TU Dresden

ZIH is the university IT center of TU Dresden and the High Performance Computing (HPC) competence center for TU Dresden and the state of Saxony for over 20 years. Since the beginning of 2021, ZIH is one of eight centers for HPC in the German initiative “Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen” (NHR) of the national Joint Science Conference and the German Research Foundation  and thus offers its services to academic users from all over Germany.

TU Dresden is one of the largest technical universities in Germany with more than 31 000 students. It has a history of over 190 years. Its wide range of disciplines, unique in Germany, obligates the university to promote interdisciplinarity and to contribute to the integration of science into society. Information Technology is among its five research priority areas. Since 2012, the TUD is one of the eleven Excellence Initiative universities in Germany.