Fede­ral govern­ment funds new pro­ject of the Uni­ver­sity of Pader­born with 2.5 mil­lion euros — “Im Bauch von Wind­rä­dern soll gerech­net werden” Zum Bei­trag

High-per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) has become an important method in many sci­en­ti­fic fields, such as drug and cli­mate rese­arch. Howe­ver, the data cen­tres with energy-inten­sive super­com­pu­ters release quite a bit of CO2. “Energy-opti­mi­sed super­com­pu­ter net­works through the use of wind energy” (ESN4NW): Behind this title is a new, nati­on­wide joint pro­ject led by the SICP — Soft­ware Inno­va­tion Cam­pus Pader­born at the Uni­ver­sity of Pader­born. In coope­ra­tion with the SICP mem­ber com­pany West­fa­len­WIND IT and their brand wind­CORES, the idea was born to deve­lop a new HPC infra­struc­ture with a sus­tainable con­cept. The Fede­ral Minis­try of Edu­ca­tion and Rese­arch (BMBF) is ...

At the invi­ta­tion of the West­fa­len­WIND Group, Tho­mas Kut­schaty, the SPD state chair­man and par­lia­men­tary group lea­der in the state par­lia­ment, visi­ted the energy town of Lich­tenau (Pader­born dis­trict) to find out about the situa­tion and pro­s­pects for wind energy. The muni­ci­pa­lity is regarded throug­hout the state as a prime exam­ple of how wind power expan­sion can be imple­men­ted with a high level of accep­tance in the muni­ci­pa­lity, local poli­tics and citizens. The par­ti­ci­pants first got to talk to Tho­mas Kut­schaty about the Lich­tenau suc­cess story in a rela­xed atmo­sphere at the trai­ning centre of Ener­con, Germany’s lar­gest manu­fac­tu­rer of ...