JSC Supercomputer and Quantum Computer Tour
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre provides leading-edge supercomputer resources, IT tools, methods, and know-how. It operates one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, JUWELS. We will give an overview on our activities and show how we make our infrastructure made available to researchers in Germany and Europe.
JUNIQ - the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing - provides access to state-of-the-art quantum computing devices to science and industry. We will give an overview on activities and how to access quantum computers within JUNIQ, and give an introduction to quantum computing with the focus on quantum annealing.
Key technologies and integrated bioeconomy concepts for sustainable plant production
During this lab tour, you will explore cutting-edge research in sustainable and innovative plant production. We will showcase advanced technologies and non-invasive, high-throughput phenotyping methods for assessing productivity traits in both plant shoots and roots. You will gain insight into quantitative analysis techniques and how AI-driven data processing enhances our understanding of plant phenotypes.
Neuroscience Lab Tour: The Journey from Brain to HPC
In this tour you will learn how human brain samples are preserved, cut into ultra-thin slices, and stained to be prepared for different imaging modalities. You will see polarised light imaging to analyse the brain’s connectivity through biological neural networks and a scanner farm where brain section are imaged at 1 micron isotropic resolution at high throughput leading to image datasets at the Petabyte scale. Analysing these huge data requires a dedicated data and workflow management in close connection with the compute and storage systems at JSC, machine learning and computer vision algorithms for biomedical image analysis on high performance computers, and software development for structured remote access to large image datasets and interactive 3D exploration of high-resolution brain atlases over the web.
Ion-Beam Analysis Lab for material analysis
In this tour you will be introduced to the method ion-beam analysis and the devices required for it. A 1.7 MV tandem accelerator provides the ions for the analysis. Several end-stations allow analysing samples from numerous fields such as nuclear fusion, batteries, semiconductors and many more. An active project is working on accelerating the analysis of the obtained data using AI methods.
FZJ Campus tour
With more than 7,000 employees, Forschungszentrum Jülich conducts research into the possibilities of a digitized society, a climate-friendly energy system, and a resource-efficient economy. We combine natural, life and engineering sciences in the fields of information, energy, and the bioeconomy with specialist expertise in high-performance computing and unique scientific infrastructure.
Forschungszentrum Jülich is as big as 238 football fields (1.7 km2). It hosts 11 institutes and large research facilities, such as the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Quantum computing infrastructure, atmospheric simulation chambers, plant phenotyping facilities, nano facilities, and particle accelerator. In this tour, we will explore the campus and its facilities to provide an overview of the research topics we cover and our infrastructure. If the weather is fine and the number of registrations allows it, we will take the bike.
