The Science IT Infrastructure and Services Department (Wissenschaftliche IT-Infrastruktur und -Dienstleistungen, AWI) delivers scientific software, high performance computing and data lifecycle solutions to support research at the large scale research facilities and the wider PSI science program.
Our inhouse innovations and outreach activities with a world leading national and international network of academic and industry collaborations is ensuring a growing platform to support the escalating opportunities from the digitalization of science.
Mission
Working with scientists and user communities to develop and support data reduction and processing software.
Enable HPC at PSI by architecting computing resources, coordinating external HPC partners, integrating software, and supporting digital science.
Provide infrastructure services and consultancy underpinning high throughput experiments
Work closely with beamline/instrument scientists, controls and other departmental colleagues to ensure operations and continued smooth IT environment and developments for LSRF experiments
Facilitate the sharing and long-term preservation of data to facilitate data provenance and open research.
Goals
- Data
Data Chain: Deliver and support a range of software and hardware services for the full experimental lifecycle of data and metadata capture for PSI research and facilities.
Storage: Deliver and support appropriate storage solutions for the experiment/research lifecycle stage
- Computing: Deliver and support appropriate HPC for the experiment/research lifecycle
- Software: Deliver and support a range of experiment software or workflows for data compression, reduction and processing.
- Communication/Coordination/Community
Core competencies
Vision
