Proceedings of the 8th Symposium

BuchLeonardo.ai
Foreword of the Proceedings for the 8th Symposium
Digital research infrastructures are important tools for enabling groundbreaking research results and thus finding answers to social challenges. The state's aim is to provide all scientists in Baden-Württemberg with high-performance research infrastructures and optimal conditions for innovative and excellent research. The state's high-performance computing strategy is also based on this claim, which is to build the necessary first-class infrastructures in dialogue with top-level research, to design them reliably and to support them with suitable support and training structures.

In order to cover the entire range of services and ensure optimal support for users, our computer centers are based on a culture of cooperation. This culture of cooperation is the result of the joint efforts of many dedicated people. On behalf of the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, I would like to thank all those involved for their extraordinary commitment and their efforts to find the best solutions.

Let us continue to successfully pursue this path together with nationwide collaborations. Only through trusting cooperation and self-determined organization can we optimally utilize the opportunities of the digital future.

A key factor for success is that the cross-university collaboration also includes an ongoing dialogue between operators and users, which raises awareness on both sides of the possibilities and needs of the other. The bwHPC symposium is an important format for this exchange. Strong involvement of users in the conception and design of infrastructure services is essential to fully exploit the potential of digital tools. With regard to the existing digital infrastructures in the state, this results in further requirements, such as the integration of tools for data analysis, the management and archiving of research data, and the consideration of new methodological approaches. The continuous further development of the digital research infrastructure remains essential in order to set the appropriate framework for an excellent, internationally competitive research landscape.

Dr. Raphael Dorn
Ministry of Science, Research and Arts 
of the State of Baden-Württemberg


Lectures in detail
  • Using BinAC to analyze microbiome samples
Anupam Gautam and Daniel H. Huson, 
Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics and Max Planck Institute for Biology, University of Tübingen
  •  A Proof of Concept for High Energy Physics Data Archival of PhD and Master Theses at the University of Freiburg
Michael Böhler, 
Institute of Physics, University Freiburg
  • Climate sensitivity and convective parameterization in the Earth system model of intermediate complexity PlaSim
Felix Pollak, Elisa Ziegler, Olga Erokhina, and Kira Rehfeld, 
Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University and Department of Geosciences and Department of Physics, Tübingen University
  •  The Dynamics of Adult Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of the Hippocampus 
Aadhar Sharma and Stefan Rotter,
Bernstein Center Freiburg & Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
  • Planned Missing Data in Social Surveys: Evaluating Strategies Regarding Their Design and Imputation
Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
  • Smallholder adaptation through agroforestry: Agent-based simulation of climate variability in Ethiopia
Habtamu Yismaw, Christian Troost and Thomas Berger
Department of Land Use Economics (490d), University of Hohenheim
  • Universal Dynamics at the Lowest Temperature
Ido Siovitz, Philipp Heinen, Niklas Rasch, Stefan Lannig, Yannick Deller, Helmut Strobel, Markus Oberthaler, and Thomas Gasenzer,
Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, Universität Heidelberg

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who contributed to these proceedings.  

Further information: