Research

ZIH, being an central unit of the Technische Universität Dresden, has an extensive research program. The main focus of our research, which is connected to a variety of different scientific fields, is the promotion of scientific computing which supports users during optimization of their applications as well as the development of new methods to solve the growing challenges of science and research.

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At a glance

Big Data Expertise

ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig - Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions is one of two national competence centers for the intelligent use of Big Data, funded by the the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.

Publications

As important way of scientific exchange, publications are essential for the dissemination of our results within the international community and for the creation of networks. This section provides an overview of the publications of the ZIH.

ZIH Colloquium

In the ZIH Colloquium international scientists present their latest research results, which are related to the research topics of ZIH. The ZIH Colloquium is open to the public. It takes place on every 4th Thursday of each month at 3 p.m. at Willers-Bau A317.

Main research topics

Scalable software tools to support the performance optimization of applications for HPC systems
- Monitoring and measurement infrastructure for profiling and event tracing of parallel applications
- Performance analysis and visualization of program flows
Data intensive computing and data life cycle
- Strategies, methods, and tools to manage data from creation to long-term archiving
- Infrastructures for (distributed) collaborative management and exploitation of research data
- Analysis and optimization of file systems, storage hardware and applications
Performance and energy efficiency analysis for innovative computer architectures
- Low-level performance analysis of processor microarcitectures and memory subsystems
- Energy-efficiency measurements and optimization on HPC systems
- Performance tuning for hardware accelerators
Distributed computing and cloud computing
- Distributed data and knowledge management
- Monitoring of Jobs and Applications
- Integration of applications and workflows in distributed environments
Data analysis, methods and modeling in life sciences
- Mathematical biology and systems biology
- Theory of collective phenomena
- Microscopy image analysis and data-driven modelling of development, regeneration and tumor growth
Parallel programming, algorithms and methods
- Parallel programming models for high performance computing
- Design and parallelization of algorithms for science and engineering

Cooperation

The ZIH closely collaborates in numerous research projects with national and international partners from science, industry and business. Such collaborations are of great interest for us because they provide exchange and synergies. They are a platform for the development and anchoring of the results.