The new IT service center was officially inaugurated at TU Ilmenau - one of two IT centers in Thuringia that use state-of-the-art technology to provide IT applications and services to all ten of Thuringia's state universities.
The IT Center at TU Ilmenau provides the ten state universities in Thuringia with central IT applications: Server and computer infrastructure, special IT systems, e-learning systems, Internet core network nodes, systems for online collaboration and high-performance computing. In addition, it provides numerous IT services, such as the Moodle eLearning system, including OpenCast, a management tool for video recordings. The IT center also procures hardware and software for all universities and offers IT legal advice.
In addition to server and technical rooms, the new building houses offices, computer pools and several laboratories on 2100 square meters, including one for virtual reality applications of the "Ilmenau Interactive Immersive Technologies Center I3TC" recently established at the TU Ilmenau, a research center for innovative virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. In addition to providing Thuringia's universities with IT applications and services, the new IT service center also offers high-tech for research and teaching at the TU Ilmenau at a top technological level.
The official inauguration of the IT Service Center at TU Ilmenau took place in the presence of Susanna Karawanskij, Thuringia's Minister of Infrastructure and Agriculture, and Wolfgang Tiefensee, Minister of Economics, Science and Digital Society. Minister Karawanskij highlighted the significant funding of the construction project by the state with a good 19 million euros:
We made the investment with the perspective that all universities in Thuringia will benefit from it - and this is clearly also a commitment to the future of Thuringia as a high chair location in general.
Wolfgang Tiefensee focused on the importance of the Grace-Hopper-Bau for the TU Ilmenau:
The computer center represents the infrastructural heart of the Technische Universität Ilmenau. After all, science and research are more dependent than ever on an excellent IT supply that can process and store ever larger amounts of data. The Grace-Hopper-Bau can do just that. It thus contributes to further improving study conditions and making studying in Ilmenau even more attractive.
More information: www.tu-ilmenau.de/en/news/new-it-service-centre-at-tu-ilmenau
Inauguration of the Grace-Hopper-Bau
Contact
Dipl. -Inf. Thomas Schröder
Head of the University Computer Center