The “Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung” (ZDV) is the university’s data centre and the focal point for HPC and storage related research activities at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The personnel at ZDV consist of more than 60 technicians and 10 Ph.D. students and post-docs. ZDV is hosting a number of high performance computers, including MOGON II consisting of 1,868 nodes with a peak performance of 2,800 TFlop/s and MOGON with 33,920 Cores and a performance of 225 TFlops. JGU is represented by the ZDV as a full member in the German Gauß Alliance.
The group of Prof. Brinkmann at the ZDV focuses its research on storage systems, Cloud computing, and HPC and is a partner in the following national and international projects:
The following list gives an overview about previous projects, which have been successfully finished at the research group: