Center for Information and Media Services (Duisburg-Essen)
| Center for Information and Media Services (ZIM) | |
|---|---|
 LE building, a ZIM location in Duisburg |
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| founding | 2005 |
| place | Duisburg ; eat |
| Number of employees | about 80 |
| Website | www.uni-duisburg-essen.de/zim |
The Center for Information and Media Services (ZIM) is a central operating unit of the University of Duisburg-Essen . In cooperation with the Duisburg-Essen University Library , it provides information, communication and media services for the university.
history
In 2003 the two universities of Duisburg and Essen were merged. The central operating unit ZIM was founded as part of the merger process. For this purpose, the two previous computer centers, the two media centers and parts of the IT of the university library and the university administration were merged into one facility.
When it was founded in 2005, the ZIM organized itself into the business areas of ERP administration applications, IT infrastructure, media and customer service as well as project management and cross-sectional tasks.
Organization / structure
Since April 1, 2014, the ZIM consists of the following business areas:
- Campus and resource management
- IT infrastructure
- Communication and information services
- Customer service
- Learning technologies
Locations
The ZIM is spread over six locations on both campuses of the university. In addition to the service centers for IT and media technology, the main contact points for users are the two e-points set up in the university library. At these central advice points, users receive help and information on all services.
activity
The tasks of the ZIM include network and server provision, operation of the ERP systems, the systems to support the student life cycle and the central communication services to the development of e-learning platforms and media production as well as the clusters for supercomputing .
ZIM has been developing and operating myUDE, the university's campus app, since 2012.
The Cray-XT6m supercomputer is operated by the ZIM. With this computer, the university positioned itself at 447th place in the TOP500 of supercomputers when it went live in 2010 . The successor system magnitUDE , an NEC cluster, was put into operation in June 2016 and ranks 279 on the TOP500 worldwide and 14th in Germany.
The university's PC hall operated by the ZIM is one of the largest university PC rooms in Germany with 198 computer workstations. In addition to being used as a free work space, PC-based exams with almost 400 participants are held here. During the renovation of building R11, the PC hall will be replaced by two combinable rooms with 150 and 70 workplaces respectively.
Together with the university library, the ZIM operates a joint advice center, the E-Competence Agency. This advises on digital services and technologies.
The Center for Information and Media Services cooperates within the framework of the University Alliance Ruhr with the IT supply facilities of the partner universities in the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) , the data center of the Ruhr University Bochum and the IT & Media Center of the Technical University of Dortmund, and operates the UA Ruhr center for distributed data management and data backup.
Web links
- Website of the Center for Information and Media Services at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Anniversary publication 5 years of ZIM (PDF; 7.2 MB)
- Anniversary publication 10 years of ZIM (PDF; 1.8 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organizational regulations for the area of information, communication and media from March 23, 2009 (PDF; 25 kB)
- ↑ http://myude.de
- ↑ http://www.uni-due.de/zim/services/wissenschaftliches_rechner/cray.php
- ↑ http://www.top500.org/system/10552
- ↑ https://www.top500.org/system/178842
- ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/de/presse/meldung.php?id=9436
- ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/css/magnitude_main.php
- ↑ http://www.uni-due.de/zim/pc-hall/
- ↑ https://www.uni-due.de/zim/services/pc-pruefungen/pc-hall.shtml
- ↑ http://www.ua-ruhr.de