ZIH-Info Nr. 192, October 2025

Table of contents

      1. New LZB building – space for digital topics
      2. HPC waste heat integrated into Dresden’s district heating network
      3. Framework agreement for storage hardware
      4. Windows and Office updates required
      5. Morpheus in the EOSC-FIDELIS network
      6. Funding approval for NFDI consortia
      7. ZIH researcher Dr. Syga receives doctoral prize
      8. ZIH Colloquium
      9. Sharing data, gaining knowledge – 6th SaxFDM conference
      10. Event dates

Editor: Jacqueline Papperitz

New LZB building – space for digital topics

Construction has begun on the Lehmann Center Office Building (LZB), which will provide a central hub for digital sciences on the TUD campus. Located on Nöthnitzer Straße, it will be home to the CIDS – Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences and offer workplaces for more than 600 employees from research, development, and service. The LZB complements the existing Lehmann Center Data Center (LZR), where ZIH operates TUD's high-performance computing and storage systems, and thus connects central digital infrastructures with the people who use and further develop them. With five floors, modern workspaces, lecture halls, and open meeting areas, the building will create room for exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and international conferences. Exhibitions such as //DataSpaces and the planned Living Labs will make the themes of CIDS visible and tangible. As a hub for digital transformation, the LZB strengthens the strategic orientation of the TUD and makes an important contribution to research, business and society. Completion is planned for the end of 2029. The building is scheduled for completion by the end of 2029 and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Further information: https://tud.link/4eqhv5. (Contact: Jacqueline Papperitz)

HPC waste heat integrated into Dresden’s district heating network

The heat pumps at the he Lehmann Center Data Center (LZR) are in operation. Since mid-September, waste heat from the high-performance computing systems has been fed into Dresden's district heating network. After the Krone Building, which has been supplying heat since 2016, households across Dresden can now also benefit from this additional heat source all year round. The heat pumps raise the temperature of the waste heat from about 50 °C to around 90 °C. At full capacity, this saves more than 2,700 tons of CO₂ every year. The project received the dena Energy Efficiency Award in December 2024, impressively demonstrating how research and industry can work together to create sustainable solutions. The facility was implemented by SachsenEnergie with an investment of around 4.4 million euros, supported by the BMWK. Further information: https://tud.link/nrzeuk. (Contact: Dr. Daniel Hackenberg)

Framework agreement for storage hardware

ZIH has concluded a framework agreement for Ceph storage. The contract allows both flash and HDD-based systems with various processor and storage options to be procured as required. An initial call-off is currently being processed to replace old systems and create capacity for already approved projects, such as the planned genome data center. The usable capacity of the new system will be around 7 PB. The framework agreement has been concluded with Interface Systems for a term of four years with the option of a two-year extension. The contract enables ZIH to respond flexibly to storage requirements from research and administration projects. (Contact: Dr. Michael Kluge)

Windows and Office updates required

Support for Windows 10 LTSB 2015, Windows 10 Education and Enterprise, as well as Office 2016 and Office 2019 will end on October 14, 2025. Affected devices must be updated by then. TUD employees with a basic Windows license can obtain an upgrade to Windows 11 and the Office Suite 2024 / 2021 for Windows or macOS for inventoried devices. Students can use Microsoft Office 365 on the basis of the state contract. The software is available via the self-service portal (access for TUD members only): https: //selfservice.tu-dresden.de/services/software-licenses/. (Contact: )

Morpheus in the EOSC-FIDELIS network

The model repository Morpheus, managed by the ZIH IMC department, which specializes in computer models for the life sciences, was included in the network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDR) of the European EOSC-FIDELIS network in July. Morpheus offers over 100 freely available computer models – from biological model organisms to human disease processes – under the open CC-BY license. The inclusion in EOSC-FIDELIS builds on existing accreditations by FAIRsharing, re3data and Identifiers. The network will develop and test long-term strategies for research data repositories within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), representing an important step for the future European research data infrastructure. Further information: https://eden-fidelis.eu/network-member. (Contact: Dr. Lutz Brusch)

Funding approval for NFDI consortia

The Joint Science Conference will continue to fund nine consortia from the first funding round of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). This decision marks an important milestone for the funded projects as well as for the overarching goal of establishing a sustainable research data infrastructure in Germany. ZIH is significantly involved in two of these consortia: In the German Human Genome Phenome Archive (GHGA), ZIH is working together with six other centers to establish a national data archive for human omics data, in particular genome data. The NFDI4Chem consortium supports chemists in implementing the FAIR principles of research data management, for example through electronic laboratory notebooks and discipline-specific data repositories. The funding decision lays the foundation for a sustainable and high-performance research data landscape in Germany. (Contact: Dr. Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn)

ZIH researcher Dr. Syga receives doctoral prize

Dr. Simon Syga was awarded the Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Prize 2024 of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB) at the end of July 2025. He received the prize for his dissertation on the mathematical modeling and analysis of tumor progression. Using novel models, Simon Syga investigated how genetic mutations and functional properties of cancer cells influence tumor regression after therapy. The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Andreas Deutsch, head of the ZIH department Innovative Methods of Computing, and will be further pursued as part of international collaborations. The award includes a plenary lecture at ECMTB 2026 and a publication in the ESMTB annual report. Further information: https://tud.link/sqhrh5. (Contact: Dr. Simon Syga)

ZIH Colloquium

On Thursday, October 9, at 15:00, a ZIH colloquium will take place in the Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau (APB-1096), featuring Kit Gallagher from the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. The lecture is titled "Personalized treatment schedules for metastatic prostate cancer – A set of novel mathematical biomarkers". Further information: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/kolloquium. (Contact: Dr. Hartmut Mix)

Sharing data, gaining knowledge – 6th SaxFDM conference

The Service Center Research Data and SaxFDM invite you to the 6th SaxFDM Conference, taking place at SLUB on November 20–21, 2025. Under the motto "Sharing data, gaining knowledge: Research data management between vision and reality", the conference will focus on current developments and challenges in research data management (RDM). Through a variety of interactive formats, topics such as RDM success stories, the integration of RDM into teaching, the intersections between RDM, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, as well as data sharing across sector boundaries will be explored. In addition, the future of our SaxFDM state initiative will be discussed, including needs, achievements, and development potential. Further information and registration: https://saxfdm.de/saxfdm-tagung/. (Contact: Dr. Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn)

Event dates

  • 02.10.2025, 9:20–10:50 am: OPAL basic course (online)

  • 09.10.2025, 10:00–15:00: Machine Learning on HPC - Introduction (online training, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig)

  • 16.10.2025, 10:00–15:00: JupyterHub on HPC (online training, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig)

  • 23.10.2025, 9:20–10:50 am: ONYX basic course (online)

  • 29.10.2025, 18:30–20:00: The Invisible Faces of AI: Ghost Workers, Click Labor and Digital Exploitation (Pillars and Umbrellas / Symposium, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig), Zentralkino Dresden / Kraftwerk Mitte

  • Open Q&A session for users of the NHR@TUD computing cluster (online): 06.10, 13.10, 20.10, 27.10. and 03.11.2025 13:30–14:00 each time

http://www.tu-dresden.de/zih/veranstaltungen

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