The University IT and Data Center was once again present at this year's Welcome Days for winter term 2023/2024. At the HRZ stand, as part of the welcome days events, all first-year students and international students had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the central IT services and processes at the University of Bonn. In addition to the welcome events in venue, we gave additional digital live lectures on our IT services via Zoom X. Our experts were available to help and advise the university's first-semester's and international students at the start of the winter term.

Due to unplanned but necessary security upgrades, the eCampus learning platform had to be switched off. Maintenance is expected to be completed in the course of the day on October 26th. We are convinced that we can activate eCampus again as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

Step by step, the multi-factor authentication (MFA for short) will be introduced for central services at the University of Bonn. On the podcast for employees, Daniela Korden, project manger at the University IT and Data Center, explains what MFA actually is, the changes awaiting university members, and how the introduction of MFA will be implemented at the University of Bonn.

The day has finally come: October 20, 2023 the ceremonial inauguration of the new high-performance computer “Marvin” has taken place.

On October 20, 2023 a symposium in occasion of the inauguration of "Marvin" is hosted by TRA Modelling . "Marvin", the new Tier-3 HPC cluster is being put into operation, and with this the University of Bonn is welcoming a new highly important piece of infrastructure, for which many scientists have been waiting for! An ideal occasion to bring together scientists from different fields, whether HPC experts or intensive users, to provide insights into their work to a broad scientific audience.

Due to an office fire incident, the HRZ building on Wegelerstr. 6-8 is currently closed, so all on-site services are restricted as no public traffic is allowed. Affected services: - IT helpdesk (available via email)- Institute machine room- IT courses- Plotting No other services are affected by the restriction and all HRZ employees are used to mobile working due to the Corona crisis.

The complete block of the HRZ building in Wegelerstr. 6-8 will be lifted on Thursday October 12th, 2023 at 12:00 p.m., so all on-site services will be available again:  - IT helpdesk - Institute machine room- IT courses- Plotting

Important information from the University IT and Data Center (HRZ) summarized for all new students at the University of Bonn. The digital start to your studies in four simple steps:   1. Activate your Uni- ID...at gosa.gosa.uni-bonn.de to use all digital services of the university. 2. Set up your e-mail account...to conveniently receive e-mails on your smartphone and laptop. 3. Configure Eduroam and VPN...to access wifi across the campus and read all academic journals. 4. Set up a Sciebo-account...at hochschulcloud.nrw to manage your data in the university cloud.