The IT Center Cologne (ITCC)
The IT Center Cologne (ITCC) will be established during 2023 by merging the former Regional Computing Center Cologne (RRZK) and the Staff Office 01 of the University administration.
The RRZK is a central institution of the University of Cologne, which, as a service and competence center, strives for technical and scientific cooperation on a state, federal and international level. The RRZK offers comprehensive IT services to members of the University of Cologne, for example the staff or student account, which can be used for numerous services at the university. Central offers such as WLAN, email or VPN are directly managed by the RRZK. The high-performance computer CHEOPS (Cologne High Efficient Operating Platform for Science) is available to researchers from Cologne and, proportionally, from all of North Rhine-Westphalia for their research work. Thanks to its performance of 100 teraflop/s peak, HPC (High Performance Computing) can be used to run those computational applications that can no longer be efficiently calculated on individual computers, such as complex simulations.
Furthermore, the RRZK can advise you on your (research) projects, such as the design of individual services through service development or the management of your research data. Storage and web servers are offered as well as advice on lecture recording. Members of the University of Cologne can purchase software at reduced rates in the Software Shop. The RRZK Helpdesk is your first point of contact for all questions regarding the services of the Computing Center.
The Staff Office 01 offers a number of services to the central university administration. The User Advisory Service is the point of contact in the event of faults or problems with the IT equipment and rectifies these in cooperation with the IT coordinators. They provide assistance and tips on using the university administration's IT devices. The Office Communication team provides the central administration with the groupware Lotus Notes, among other things, and the Resource Management department looks after complex applications used within the university administration in the areas of "Business and Finance", "Organization, IT, Purchasing", "Human Resources", "Building and Property Management" and "Research Management". The web servers of the administration as well as the technical infrastructure for campus management and SAP, among others, are also provided and maintained by Staff Unit 01.