Digitalization - ­Connecting Element and Intersection

Organizations today are faced with the task of adapting their structures, processes and products to the innovative technologies of digital transformation in order to efficiently exploit the benefits of these opportunities and developments. For science, the associated issues offer new opportunities to explore forward-looking solutions and contribute to society. With current trends such as edge and cloud computing – closely related to methods in High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data, Data Analytics (DA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – future infrastructures will have to adapt autonomously and highly dynamically to changing environments and requirements, selecting the optimal location for executing program code and storing data in each case without restricting users' data sovereignty.

TU Dresden identified digitalization as connecting element and interface to all research and teaching areas, thus defining it a central task. The foundation of the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS) in June 2021 is a strategic step towards this objective. With the establishment of CIDS as a holistic and interdisciplinary hub for digitalization, data analytics, HPC, and AI, TU Dresden is well equipped for national and international competition.