Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
Operational Information
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The Max Planck Computing and Data Facility welcomes its new Director Erwin Laure. On March 1, 2020, Erwin Laure takes over the leadership of the MPCDF from Hermann Lederer who has been Acting Director since the passing away of Stefan Heinzel in Aug. 2018, who led the center for 25 years. |
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Erwin Laure changes from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, to the Max Planck Society. At the KTH he was engaged as the director of the PDC, the Center for High Performance Computing, and as a professor in Computer Science. The Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF, formerly known as RZG) is a cross-institutional competence centre of the Max Planck Society to support computational and data sciences. It originated as the computing centre of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) which was founded 1960 by Werner Heisenberg and the Max Planck Society (MPS). In close collaboration with domain scientists from different Max Planck Institutes the MPCDF is engaged in the development and optimization of algorithms and applications for high performance computing as well as in the design and implementation of solutions for data-intensive projects. The MPCDF operates a state-of-the-art supercomputer, several mid-range compute systems and data repositories for various Max Planck institutes, and provides an up-to-date infrastructure for data management including long-term archival. |
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