Scientific IT Services of ETH

Upcoming RDM workshop series in spring semester 2026

18-Feb-2026

In collaboration with Scientific IT Services, the ETH Library is organising seven workshops related to research data management (RDM).

They will take place on Wednesday mornings in the time period from 18 February to 01 April 2026. The first six workshops build on each other and address the various elements of RDM along the research data life cycle. The last workshop introduces the activities of the Citizen Science Center Zurich.

You can register for individual workshops or for the whole series. All workshops will be conducted in English and online via Zoom.

Further information and registration via this link.

Preannouncement: ETH Zurich FAIR Competence Funding

26-Jan-2026

Are you an ETH member who handles research data and code as part of your work? Would you like to help implement the FAIR principles at ETH Zurich? Do you have ideas on how to share your expertise and services with a wider community of ETH researchers?

ETH Zurich is testing a new funding scheme as part of a broader initiative to implement the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) for digital research assets such as code, data, notes, metadata and images. These FAIR Competence Funding Grants will be up to 50k CHF for a maximum of 18 months to support the further training of RDM specialists and the expansion of the RDM services they provide.

Who it is for: Research Software Engineers (RSEs), Data Stewards, Digital Curators/Archivists, Technical Personnel, and all Researchers with Research Data Management (RDM) responsibilities.

To submit a proposal: To apply you must demonstrate proven RDM skills, be an ETH employee, and have the support of at least two research units.

Register now: Information and answers to questions will be provided at an online event on 26 January 2026 from 13:00 to 14:00. Register here for the event and to receive the application documents by email on the day of publication.

ETH Data Management Campus Launch Event

22-Jan-2026

The ETH Domain has launched the Data Management Campus: a new digital space designed to support researchers in building strong, reusable and transparent data practices.

It currently offers ten e-learning modules and a growing collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) to support Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Research Data (ORD) across disciplines.

Meet contributors from across the ETH Domain and see how these resources support open, practical, and reusable research. Join the official launch webinar on Thursday, 22 January 2026, 10.00 â 11.30, register here.

Upcoming RDM workshop series in autumn semester 2025

15-Oct-2025

In collaboration with Scientific IT Services, the ETH Library is organising seven workshops related to research data management (RDM).

They will take place on Wednesday mornings in the time period from 15 October to 26 November 2025. The first six build on each other and address the various elements of RDM along the research data life cycle. The last workshop introduces the activities of the Citizen Science Center Zurich.

You can register for individual workshops or for the whole series. All workshops will be conducted in English and online via Zoom.

Further information and registration via this link.

EnhanceR Symposium

25-Sep-2025

We are happy to announce the EnhanceR Symposium 2025.

EnhanceR Symposium is a full-day event on Sep 4th, 2025. The event will hosted at the HEG-FR in Fribourg.

The registration for the event is open.

Euler cluster documentation is moving to https://docs.hpc.ethz.ch

18-Sep-2025

After many years using MediaWiki, we have decided to migrate the Euler documentation to a more modern platform based on MkDocs. The old wiki will remain accessible within ETH for some time, but will not be updated anymore.

The new documentation is online and we will be happy to get your feedback about its format and contents.

ETH Domain MOOCathon - Help us to Shape the Future of RDM Training

10-Sep-2025

Weâre thrilled to invite you to the upcoming hackathon on 10 and 11 September 2025 at ETH Zurich:

This two-day, in-person event brings together researchers from across the ETH Domain to co-create and enhance short online Research Data Management (RDM) training modules. Together with a group of other researchers you will work on one of the topics that you can select:

Code Management and Reproducibility
Sensitive Data Treatment
Writing Useful Data Management Plans
Licenses
Open File Formats and Open-Source Code

You can find more details and a registration form on this website.

EOSC Data Commons officially underway

09-May-2025

The EOSC Data Commons project kicked off in Amsterdam last month. With 22 European institutions participating, it will be running for three years, until end of March 2028. The main goal is to develop an AI-enhanced "matchmaker" service that discovers published research datasets and combines them with analysis workflows able to process them, all powered by the European Open Science Cloud. The project receives EU funding within the Horizon Europe initiative. SIS participates on behalf of ETH Zurich with separate funding from the Swiss government.

EnhanceR Symposium 2025 - Call for Contributions

06-May-2025

We are re looking for contributions for the EnhanceR symposium 2025 which will take place on 4 September 2025 in Fribourg.

The EnhanceR Symposium is a one-day event for RSEs and Research IT professionals and offers a unique opportunity to

Share your experiences - both successes and valuable lessons learned.
Learn directly from your peers in Swiss academia.
Collaborate to advance the field of research software engineering in Switzerland.

You can find more details at https://symposium.enhancer.ch/.

We are looking for contributions from a range of areas relevant to our community:

Show-and-tell sessions: Share software you developed, a specific project, tool or technique. These are 30 Minute sessions including Q&A and discussions.
Workshops: Lead a hands-on session or facilitate a discussion on a topic, 45 or 90 minute sessions.

You can find more details and a submission form at this website.

EnhanceR Seminar Series Talk - NEXUS

26-Mar-2025

We are happy to announce the next talk of the EnhanceR Seminar Series:

David Meyer from ETH Zurich will present

NEXUS, a versatile platform to facilitate personalized health research and development

on Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00am.

Zoom-link: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/65762768553

Informatiktage 2025

25-Mar-2025

Scientific IT Services will present at the Informatiktage 2025 : Security in data platforms for biomedical research

Date: 25.03.2025

Time: 18.00 - 19.15

Registration necessary.

Call for funding RSE Ambassadors

05-Mar-2025

We are pleased to announce that the EnhanceR association offers funding for RSE ambassadors from academic/research institutions for one year:

Institutions which are members of the EnhanceR association with 10,000 CHF,
Institutions which are not EnhanceR members with 5,000 CHF.

RSE Ambassadors advocate for and support the Research Software Engineer (RSE) community. They play a crucial role in raising awareness about the importance of research software engineers in academia and research institutions.

RSE Ambassadors facilitate networking and collaboration within the community. They also engage in organizing meetings, outreach activities, sharing best practices and help to increase the visibility of the RSE community in Switzerland.

We particularly encourage applications from volunteers from academic institutions with no or very early-stage RSE communities.

You can find all details about this call this document

The deadline for submission is 23 March 2025.

EnhanceR Seminar Series Talk - AlpsB

05-Mar-2025

We are happy to announce the next talk of the EnhanceR Seminar Series:

Alex Upton from the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) will present

AlpsB â a Geographically Distributed Infrastructure to Facilitate Large-Scale Training of Weather and Climate AI Models

on Wednesday, March 5 at 10:00am.

Zoom-link: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/68175123164

Love Data Week 2025

10-Feb-2025

The week of 10th-14th February 2025 is "Love Data Week". This is an international event, initially launched in 2016 in the US, which spread significantly over the last years. During this week, several talks related to data management will be provided by the participating institutions in Switzerland. For the full program, check Love Data Week 2025.

SIS and the ETH Library will contribute with the following events:

Research Data Publishing - Best Practices (Monday, 10 February 2025, 14.00-14.30)
Data Management Strategies for Research Groups: A Quick Start (Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 15.00-15.30)
Bridging the Gap: Strategies for ELN Adoption in Academic Research (Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 11.00-11.30)

Writing Fast(er) Code in Python Workshop

21-Jan-2025

We are pleased to announce a three-day course to give a hands-on introduction to write fast(er) code in Python.

For more information about the course and how to apply read here.

Data Stewardship Network Online Seminar

17-Oct-2024

We invite you to the next seminar from the series "Current Topics in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship", which will take place online on Thursday, October 17 at 3pm (1 hour) via Zoom.

Alain Borel - research data management specialist at EPFL Library - will tell us about "Data specialist networks: an EPFL Library perspective". Additionally, Frederik Banis - Data Steward at ETH - will give a MiniTalk about a useful RDM tool.

Interested people are very welcome to join via Zoom.

Applying for RSE jobs: Panel Discussion

15-Oct-2024

We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the RSE community: a panel discussion on applying for RSE jobs.

The event will take place on 15 October 2024, 16-17:30 at the ETH Campus HÃ¶nggerberg. The exact location will be sent to you after successful registration.

For more information and registration: https://rse.ethz.ch/events/2024_10_15_rse_jobs_panel/

We are hiring

27-Sep-2024

Do you want to move science forward? Solve complex problems and turn them into simple and elegant solutions? Work on something meaningful with an innovative team that creates value for our society?

We are hiring - looking for an HPC Application Specialist.

Leonhard Med Paper Presentation

13-Sep-2024

We have recently published a journal paper describing the functionality of our trusted research environment (TRE), Leonhard Med.

Sergio Maffioletti, group leader of the Research Platforms group at SIS, will present its content at the International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics on September 13th at the University of Zurich.

Check out the Symposium program.

You can download the paper at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jib-2024-0021/html.

2nd Leonhard Med User Meeting

12-Sep-2024

The Leonhard Med team is pleased to announce the 2^nd Leonhard Med User Meeting that will take place on September 12^th, 2024, in person at the OCTAVO offices in Zurich. The users will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge, give personal feedback and express their wishes on the service. All LeoMed users are invited and were informed via email.

Six-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP

21-Aug-2024

We are pleased to announce a six-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP being held on

August 21 - 30, 2024.

For more details read here.

EOSC Project to Build Open Research Data Infrastructure

19-Aug-2024

SIS, together with the EGI Foundation and other partners, have been awarded funding for a new project under the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Data Commons initiative. This project will build on SISâs Reproducible Research Platform (RRP) to build an infrastructure to share, discover and make use of distributed open research data.

Rust Fest 2024

24-Jun-2024

Scientific IT Services has co-organized RustFest 2024 at ETH Zurich, a conference about Rust with 2 days of workshops, 2 days of conference and 2 "impl days."

For more details read here: rustfest.ch

SIS Workshop at the Swiss bioinformatics summit.

24-Jun-2024

Scientific IT Services are holding a workshop at the SIB days in Biel/Bienne:

"Best practices to support the reproducible research value chain in bioinformatics: from raw data to final publication."

Topics include, eg.: openBIS, GUIs and scripting for data management, workflow systems, orchestration of code repositories and data management.

See https://sibdays.sib.swiss/tutorials-and-workshops for details.

Data Stewardship Network Online Seminar

13-Jun-2024

We invite you to the next seminar from the series "Current Topics in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship", which will take place online on June 13 at 3pm (1 hour) via Zoom.

Tereza KalovÃ¡ - academic coordinator of the Data Steward study program at the University of Vienna - will tell us about the Data Steward Certificate Program at the University of Vienna: Competencies, Curriculum and Career Paths.

Interested people are very welcome to join via Zoom.

SIS presentations at the ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2024

10-Jun-2024

SIS continues excellent collaboration with ETH Library and presents at the upcoming ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2024 that will take place 10 to 14 June 2024.

SIS experts will share insights on Research Data Management with openBIS, version control with Git and secure handling on sensitive data with Leonhard Med.

Chatbot-Hackathon

24-May-2024

We are excited to announce a chatbot Hackathon centered on developing a framework to create and deploy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbots for website data. For this event, the participation is limited to the members of Informatikdienste of ETH ZÃ¼rich.

The event will take place on 24 May 2024, 09:00-17:00, in OCT J 59.1 & 59.2.

For more information about the Hackathon and the planned work packages, please see https://ethz.sharepoint.com/sites/dev/ML/SitePages/Chatbot-Hack.aspx.

To register for the Hackathon, please email Dr. Tarun Chadha by 30 April 2024. Also, please indicate which work packages (could be more than one) you would like to contribute to.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the event.

Euler - migration from CentOS to Ubuntu

16-May-2024

We are migrating the operating system of Euler to Ubuntu 22.04, because CentOS 7, will reach its end-of-life on 30 June 2024.

For more information about the migration, please refer to our wiki page Migration from CentOS to Ubuntu

Long Covid Study with computations on Leonhard Med published in Science

08-Apr-2024

We congratulate the authors who published their research on a new mechanism of active Long Covid in Science!

The members of the Scientific IT Services are thrilled to announce that part of the computation was done on our Trusted Research Environment Leonhard Med.

Informatiktage 2024

19-Mar-2024

Scientific IT Services will present at the Informatiktage 2024 : Security in data platforms for biomedical research

Date: 19.03.2024

Time: 18.15 - 19.15

Registration necessary.

Introduction to Machine Learning using Python

08-Mar-2024

We are pleased to announce a four-day course to give a hands-on introduction to the field of machine learning using Python.

The course will take place on on Thu 14th, Fri 15th, Thu 22nd and Fri 23rd March 2024.

The course is fully booked and we plan to offer the workshop again early 2025.

For more information about the course ~~and how to apply~~ read here.

Introduction to programming and natural language processing (NLP) for Humanities

04-Mar-2024

We are pleased to announce a six-day course providing a hands-on introduction to Python programming and analyzing textual data.

The course aims to introduce the Python programming language to people with no prior programming knowledge who plan to do research with digitized texts. Basic concepts and the packages used for natural language processing and machine learning will be introduced. In-depth, hands-on sessions will provide practical guidance on how to use programming in different contexts, from small automation tasks to analyzing text data using machine learning methods. The main focus of the course will be on practical aspects.

We will hold the course on-site at ETH ZÃ¼rich (OCT in Oerlikon and ETZ in the center):

Part 1: Introduction to programming in Python: 4th March (Mon) and 6th March (Wed),
Part 2: Working with text data: 17th April (Wed) and 22nd April (Mon),
Part 3: Machine learning for text data: 6th May (Mon) and 15th May (Wed).

The course will be taught by Dr. Agnieszka Ilnicka and Dr. Tarun Chadha from SIS. For more information and registration, please refer to the course webpage.

RDM Workshop series - Spring semester

21-Feb-2024

The ETH Library and the ETH Scientific IT Services run a series of workshops covering different topics related to Research Data Management (RDM). Registration is open for the next RDM workshop series.

Love Data Week

12-Feb-2024

The week of 12^th-16^th February is "Love Data Week". This is an international event, initially launched in 2016 in the US, which spread significantly over the last years. During this week, several talks related to data management will be provided by the participating institutions in Switzerland.

SIS and the ETH Library will contribute with the following events:

Research data capentry â Publish your research data with us (Monday, 12 February 2024, 13.00-16.00)
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: why and how (Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 11.00-11.30)
Secure Handling of Strictly Confidential and Confidential Research Data (Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 15.30-16.00)
Metadata â If you love your data, annotate it! (Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 11.00-11.45)
Getting started with a data management strategy for your research group (Thursday, 15 February 2024, 11.00-11.30)

Euler IX extension

25-Jan-2024

The next extension of the Euler HPC cluster, called Euler IX, has been delivered and racked by Dalco. It contains 192 nodes with 192 AMD Epyc cores each, amounting to a total of 36,864 cores. Acceptance tests have been passed and the nodes are in production. All these nodes are connected to the cluster's 100 Gb/s Ethernet network and will be connected to a dedicated 100 Gb/s InfiniBand HDR network later this year.

High Performance Computing (HPC) for genomic applications

13-Dec-2023

The course "High Performance Computing (HPC) for genomic applications" is organized for the D-BSSE researchers (including PhD and Master students) by the Scientific IT Services. It will be run in this edition in a classroom mode.

Wednesday, December 13th 2023, 9:30-17:00

BSS F 10.1

Registration form here

The main goal of the course is to increase IT competences of researchers and encourage them to use Euler cluster for bioinformatic analyses: independently or together with a bioinformatician in a co-analysis mode. The participants are expected to work on own laptops, using a terminal to connect to the cluster. After the course there are planned time slots, when the participants can discuss or work on solutions for their own data analysis issues with the instructors.

This is the basic, one-day course, which enables participants to take part in the advanced course on workflows and advanced aspects of the bioinformatics on the cluster. It will be announced later, in spring/summer 2024.

The modules of the course are:

Genomic data and data formats
Bioinformatic software tools on the cluster
Introduction to Euler and HPC
Slurm queuing system
Hands-on exercise with the cluster

New seminar series "Current Topics in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship"

07-Dec-2023

As part of the ETH Zurich Data Stewardship Network, we are excited to launch a new seminar series onÂ "Current Topics in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship". The first seminar will take place on Thursday, 7th December 2023 from 15:00 to 16:00.Â In this seminar, Swen Vermeul from ETH Zurich Scientific IT Services will talk aboutÂ Graph Databases and why you need them.

Abstract: Traditional relational databases are â despite their name â surprisingly bad when it comes to relations. Storing data is easy as long as the data looks like a table. Unfortunately, in real life, data is often structured and rarely fits into a table. This is where graph databases might become handy, especially when not only data points are important but also relationships between these data points. In this talk I will present you some concepts of noSQL databases, the differences between RDF Triplestores and Labeled Property Graphs as well as the GraphQL API, which makes it easy to get exactly the data you want.

The seminar will be held in a hybrid form with the on-âsite part taking place in the ETH Main Building in room ETHBIB Kursraum HG J 29.7. As the room has limited capacity, please fill in the registration form if you plan to attend in person. You can also participate in the seminar online via Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/66297798684 (no registration required).

Please adress any questions concerning the new RDM seminar series by e-âmail to Agnieszka Ilnicka (ailnicka@ethz.ch).

New Calls from the ORD Programme of the ETH Domain

01-Dec-2023

Two new calls from the Open Research Data (ORD) Programme of the ETH Domain have been launched:

the 6th call for Contribute projects: application deadline is 12 December 2023
the 2nd and final call for Explore projects: application deadline is 29 February 2024

These calls offer financial support for projects related to ORD practices. Further information and the guidelines can be found on the website of the ETH Board.

Announcement of new EnhanceR Seminar Series

29-Nov-2023

The aim of this seminar series is to foster the exchange within the EnhanceR network and broaden the network to additional national (and possibly international) Research IT units in the future.

Additional information regarding the iterations, topics of talks and the registration can be found here: https://www.enhancer.ch/seminar.

Free Python for Scientific Computing workshop from Aalto University

07-Nov-2023

Scientific Computing in Practice lecture series at Aalto University in collaboration with Code Refinery offer a free workshop to introduce tools for scientific computing with Python. The course consists of four online hands-on sessions 3h each.

The course is open to the world and fully online.

For more details read here.

Writing Fast(er) Code in Python Workshop

24-Oct-2023

We have recently announced a four-day course to give a hands-on introduction to writing fast(er) code in Python.

We plan to hold this course on-site at ETH Zurich (OCT E34 & E36) on:

Wednesday 15th of November, 9:00 until 17:00
Friday 17th of November, 9:00 until 17:00
Wednesday 22nd of November, 9:00 until 17:00
Friday 24th of November, 9:00 until 17:00

This course will introduce participants to various techniques and tools to help them tackle performance issues when writing Python code. We will discuss tools for codes running on local computers as well as on high-performance-computing clusters.

The course requires some previous Python experience and is not an introduction to Python. It will be suited for people who can answer the following questions with "yes":

Have you been programming in Python for more than a year?
Have you ever experienced performance issues in your Python code?
Are you interested in running Python code on high-performance-computing clusters (such as ETH's Euler cluster)?

For more information about the course read here.

We have received an overwhelming interest in the course, which was filled within a few days.

openBIS User Group Meeting 2023

12-Sep-2023

The openBIS User Group Meeting 2023 will take place in Zurich on 12-14 September 2023.

All information can be found on the openBIS website.

Please note that the workshops on day 2 and day 3 have limited number of places available, which are assigned on a first come first served basis.

Research Data Management at ETH Zurich

05-Sep-2023

Would you like to know what services and infrastructures are available at ETH Zurich for handling of FAIR Research Data?

Join the next online-presentation of the Open Science Working Group and learn more about the development of Research Data Management at ETH Zurich. All information about the lunchtime event on

Tuesday, 5 September, 12:30 to 13:30

can be found in this flyer (registration is required).

The new Open Science web pages provide for more information on FAIR Data, Open Access publishing and funding opportunities.

RDM Guidelines at ETH - Information Events

24-Jul-2023

The ETH Open Science working group is organizing two information events on the topic of research data management at ETH Zurich. The events will provide an insight into the new Research Data Management Guidelines (RDM Guidelines), the development of research data management at ETH and the support services and data infrastructures available to researchers.

The first event is aimed at ETH members in the central services and will take place online on Monday 24 July 2023 from 11:00 to 12:00. Further details and registration information here.
The second event is aimed at ETH researchers and will take place online on Thursday, 27 July 2023 from 11:00 to 12:00. Further details and registration information here.

1st Leonhard Med User Meeting

06-Jul-2023

The Leonhard Med team is pleased to announce the 1^st Leonhard Med User Meeting that will take place on July 6^th, 2023, in person at the OCTAVO offices in Zurich. The users will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge, give personal feedback and express their wishes on the service. All LeoMed users are invited and were informed via email.

Workshop on technical interoperability between ORD services and repositories in the ETH Domain

29-Jun-2023

The Expert Group Services and Infrastructure of the ETH ORD Program is organizing a full-day workshop on technical interoperability between ORD services and repositories in the ETH Domain. The workshop will take place on Thursday, June 29, at the University of Bern. For further information and registration, please visit the workshop website.

Introduction to openBIS

27-Jun-2023

We are offering an Introduction to openBIS on 27th of June for the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). For more details read here.

SIS at EGI conference

19-Jun-2023

SIS is giving a talk-demo about OpenRDM at the EGI conference in PoznaÅ, Poland.

SIS presentations at the ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2023

12-Jun-2023

SIS continues excellent collaboration with ETH Library and presents at the upcoming ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2023 that will take place 12 to 16 June 2023.

SIS experts will share insights on Research Data Management with openBIS, version control with Git and secure handling on sensitive data with Leonhard Med.

Leonhard Med Coffee Hour

12-Jun-2023

The Leonhard Med Coffee Hour is a monthly informal online gathering where LeoMed users can chat with members of the LeoMed team. The first event will take place on June 12, 2023.

Who should join:

users new to LeoMed after the self-paced LeoMed User Training
users who have questions about how to do something more efficiently on LeoMed
users who have a vague use case, cannot clearly formulate it yet, and want some guidance

LeoMed users can find more information here.

Call for proposals to improve ELN interoperability in the ETH Domain

02-Jun-2023

The ETH Domain ORD Program has launched a call to target the limited interoperability between Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). With this call for proposals, the ORD Program will fund one or more projects that aim to improve the interoperability between ELN systems in the ETH Domain.

The call is advertised on the website of the ETH Board and the deadline for proposal submission is on 31 August 2023 at 17:00.

We are hiring

10-May-2023

We are seeking a Scientific Computing Expert to strengthen our team of experts to support researchers in finding, setting up and using the right tools and compute resources for their scientific work.

Please check our job ad.

openBIS 20.10.6 released

02-May-2023

We released openBIS 20.10.6. It brings improvements to UI navigation and data import/export, among other new features and bug fixes. For more, see the release notes.

SIS presentations on Open Science and Open Research Data at NCCRs events

28-Apr-2023

The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) are organizing a series of three events on Open Science and Open Research Data (ORD), with presentations and workshops by experts and researchers who develop methods for practicing various aspects of ORD.

Scientific IT Services will contribute to the event in Zurich with one plenary talk and three workshops, which cover the topics of research data management, working with sensitive data and code management with git.

For more information read here.

SIS presentations on Active Research Data Management and openBIS at DGM events

24-Apr-2023

Scientific IT services participates at the forum for young academics of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fÃ¼r Materialkunde (German Society for material science) in Kassel, Germany under the umbrella of the openRDM.eu project.

Rostyslav Kuzyakiv (SIS Research Data Management Expert) contributes with two workshops about Active Research Data Management and openBIS ELN LIMS training session for students and young scientists.

We are hiring

01-Mar-2023

You are a professional web developer and want to work in a scientific environment? ~~Please check our job ad.~~

Introduction to Machine Learning using Python

22-Feb-2023

We are pleased to announce a four-day course to give a hands-on introduction to the field of machine learning using Python.

The course will take place on on Thu 16th, Fri 17th, Thu 23rd and Fri 24th March 2023.

The course is fully booked and we plan to offer the workshop again early 2024.

For more information about the course ~~and how to apply~~ read here.

Euler VIII operational

19-Dec-2022

The new extension Euler VIII has passed all acceptance tests and is now fully operational. Euler VIII features:

Two 64-core AMD EPYC 7742 processors (the same as Euler VI) which results in a total of 128 cores
512â¯GB of DDR4 memory clocked at 3200 MHz
920 GB of local scratch space

All nodes are open to user jobs through the queueing system.

RSS Feed for SIS News

13-Dec-2022

We offer now a RSS feed at https://sis.id.ethz.ch/feed/rss.xml which includes the news from this page.

openBIS v20.10.5 is now available

05-Dec-2022

The most relevant new features and bug fixes of this new release are:

XLS exports in ELN UI: tables in the ELN can now be exported in XLS format (instead of .tsv). This export is compatible with the XLS imports for batch updates:
- Tables
- Batch update entries in a Collection
XLS exports in admin UI. Types tables can now be exported from the admin UI. The exported XLS files can be imported in the admin UI. This facilitates exchanges of data models between different openBIS instances:
- Masterdata exports and imports
New navigation menu previewÂ in admin UI. It is now possible to navigate the openBIS hierarchy from the admin UI. This navigation menu is a preview of the new navigation menu that will be included in the ELN in the next openBIS minor release in 2023.
- Database navigation in admin UI
Semantic annotations in XLS masterdata. It is possible to use semantic annotations for types in the XLS masterdata. Annotations are not yet visible in the ELN and admin UI, this will be included in the next openBIS minor release in 2023.
- Excel Import Service
Parents and children kept in ELN templates. Previously when Object templates created in the ELN contained parents and children, these were not copied over when the templates were used. This is now fixed.
Improvements to ELN settings in multiâgroup instances.
Personal Access Tokens (PAT): simplify integration with other systems, by avoiding to provide username and password for authentication. PATs can be long-lived:
- Personal Access Tokens

The fullÂ list of changes is available here.

This version can be downloaded from the productionÂ releases page of our wiki.

Euler VIII extension delivered

24-Nov-2022

The next extension of the Euler HPC cluster, called Euler VIII, has been delivered and racked by Dalco. It contains 192 nodes with 128 AMD Epyc cores each. Now the company is working on passing all the acceptance tests so Euler VIII can be handed over to the HPC team who will put it in production.

One of the new Euler VIII racks (front).

One of the new Euler VIII racks (back).

Consortium of PSI, Empa, ETHZ wins ETH Board funding for âEstablishâ project on ORD Practices

24-Nov-2022

A consortium including PSI, Empa and ETH Zurich, led by Dr. Giovanni Pizzi, Group leader of the âMaterials Software and Dataâ group at PSI, has won funding of almost CHF1.3 million for a three-year project dubbed PREMISE: âOpen and reproducible materials science research.â The PREMISE project aims to establish, promote and facilitate the adoption of ORD practices that adhere to FAIR data principles in the field of materials science.

In addition to Dr. Pizzi, the consortium consists of Dr. Carlo Pignedoli, deputy group leader of the âAtomistic simulations groupâ at Empa; Dr. Corsin Battaglia, laboratory head of the âMaterials for Energy Conversion labâ at Empa; Dr. Bernd Rinn, section head at the ID Scientific IT Services group at ETH Zurich; Dr. Caterina Barillari, RDM service manager in the ID Scientific IT Services group at ETH Zurich; Dr. Henry LÃ¼tcke, scientific computing lead in the ID Scientific IT Services group at ETH Zurich and Dr. Peter Kraus, scientist in the âMaterials for Energy Conversion labâ at Empa.

Further information on the project is available here.

Research Data Management Workshop Series

10-Aug-2022

Scientists nowadays collect ever larger amounts of data that have to be stored, interpreted and shared.

Furthermore, new guidelines and policies regarding data management are regularly issued by funding agencies, journals or academic institutions. As a result, successful research data management has become both a key skill and a major challenge for many scientists.

In collaboration with ETH Library, we participate in a workshop series of eight consecutive workshops focusing on the various elements of research data management and the research data life cycle.

The first workshop on Research Data Management Basics will start on September 28, 2022. Subsequent workshops will run throughout October and November.

Further information and registration is available here.

New guidelines for Research Data Management at ETH Zurich

04-Jul-2022

Professional research data management (RDM) is a key factor for excellent research and an integral component of good scientific practice. In recent months, the Open Science working group of ETH Zurich â with the active involvement of the ETH research community â has drafted guidelines for RDM at ETH Zurich and systematically linked them with the Integrity Guidelines. The working group is drawn from different ETH divisions, among them the Research Commission, ETH Library and SIS. The new guidelines for research data management have been approved by the ETH Executive Board in June and came into effect on July 1. SIS supports researchers in the implementation of the new guidelines by offering different RDM services and a secure data and IT platform for management and processing of confidential and strictly confidential Research Data (Leonhard Med).

Research Data Management Summer School

20-Jun-2022

After the pandemic the RDM Summerschool organized by ETH Library happened last week in-person again!

SIS was involved teaching data management and reproducible data analysis. We also contributed several workshops:

Introduction to research data managemeng using openBIS
Tools and platforms for reproducible data analysis
Version control using git
Secure Handling of Strictly Confidential and Confidential Data for Research

Applied Machine Learning Days 2022

30-Mar-2022

ITS SIS is organizing a conference track at the Applied Machine Learning Days 2022 (AMLD 2022) on the topic Academic Support & Scientific Services in AI.

The purpose of this track is to bring together domain scientists and AI experts who work collaboratively. These scientists and experts will share their experiences on the benefits and challenges of such "AI collaborations".

We have speakers from SDSC, Google, ScopeM, TCC/UniZH, etc. You can find a detailed description of our track, including speakers and agenda of the track, here At the end of the track, there will be a panel discussion for further exchange. We are looking forward to a diverse and stimulating session.

AMLD 2022 will take place from March 28-30, 2022, in Lausanne. Our track will be held on the 30th of March from 11:00-17:00. If you have time and interest in this topic, we would be delighted to see you at our track.

Online event: AlphaFold2 on the Euler Cluster and Applications

21-Mar-2022

The latest version of the AI-based AlphaFold has been recognized as a solution to the 50-year-old grand challenge in predicting the protein 3D folding structure by its amino acid sequence. To facilitate the use of AlphaFold2 for the ETH research community, Scientific IT Services (SIS) provide its Python package and databases required for running AlphaFold2 on the HPC Euler cluster. In this online event, we would like to present you the usage of AlphaFold2 on Euler and examples of applications.

Date: Monday 21 March 2022 at 10:00-11:00

Zoom link: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/64638964004

Agenda:

Short introduction of the scientific breakthrough of the year 2021 - AlphaFold2 (presenter: Dr. Marc Leibundgut, D-BIOL, IMBB)
Using AlphaFold2 and its databases on the Euler cluster (presenter: Dr. Jarunan Panyasantisuk, SIS)
Applications and interpretation of the results (presenter: Dr. Simon RÃ¼disser, D-BIOL, BioNMR)
Open discussion

We are looking forward to seeing you at the event.

For questions, please contact jarunan@ethz.ch.

BioMedIT - national personalized health research network fully operational

21-Mar-2022

The BioMedIT project was launched in 2017 as part of the SPHN initiative, linking secure computing infrastructures in Basel, Lausanne and Zurich. At the moment, the project provides essential IT and data management services to over 60 national and international projects. Furthermore, to highlight this success, the project launched its website today.

The overall goal of personalized health research is to optimize disease diagnostics, prevention, and treatment based on patient characteristics (molecular, clinical and phenotypic). However, this is possible only if a critical mass of datasets, typically scattered across several healthcare institutions, can be analyzed efficiently and consistently.

BioMedIT makes it easier to reach this critical mass by offering an easy and secure way to conduct large multi-site projects. It builds on and integrates results from parallel initiatives around data interoperability at the national level.

For more details of BioMedIT, including success stories and organizational structure, please refer to the news item (English, German and French (links)). For more information about BioMedIT activities in ETH Zurich, please get in touch with the Leonhard Med team.

For more details please check our press releases in English, in German and in French.

Open Research Data Project Calls

03-Mar-2022

The ETH-ââBoard together with the six ETH-ââDomain institutions have allocated up to CHF 10 million till the end of 2024 as a measure to launch an open research data (ORD) practices funding scheme. ORD includes code, computing environments, tools/hardware, wetware, educational resources and generally any information that is necessary to do research. The programmeâs overall goal is to promote ORD practices and infrastructures across the ETH-ââDomain and stimulate a wider implementation of good ORD practices.

The scheme consists of three tracks for funding projects to contribute to ongoing, explore new, and establish standards/processes of ORD practices; these three distinct project types are described on the website of the ETH Domain. Please note that specific budgeting requirements, funding and regulations for in-âkind or in-âcash contributions apply for ETH Zurich applicants (see call details).

Open calls for Field-âââSpecific Actions (Measure 1):

The first call for âExploreâ projects (deadline set for 14 April 2022) and the call for âEstablishâ preproposals (deadline 1 May 2022) have been closed. The next call for âContributeâ projects will be advertised on the Website of the ETH-âââBoard soon.

SIS Code & Data Clinic for BSSE

22-Feb-2022

We offer the Code and Data Clinic

first Tuesday of every month in the first half of 2022

4 Jan, 1 Feb, 1 Mar, 5 Apr, 3 May, 7 Jun,

14:00-16:00 either over Zoom or in the Science Lounge

Please announce your attendance with a short email to sis.helpdesk@ethz.ch.

Interactive scientific computing with computational notebooks (Coffee Lecture)

17-Nov-2021

We would like to invite you to our short lecture on scientific computing with computational notebooks taking place on

17 November 2021 at 15:15-15:30

Please find the Zoom link to join the lecture and more information here.

Getting Started with the Scientific Cluster Workshop

14-Oct-2021

We would like to invite you to join our online workshop on Getting Started with the Scientific Cluster taking place on

Thursday 14 October 2021, 10:00-15:00.

For more information and registration, click here

Code and Data Clinic Zurich

01-Oct-2021

The next Code and Data Clinic for DBIOL and DGESS will happen via Zoom on Friday 1st of October, 3 to 5 pm.

Please write a short email to uwe.schmitt@id.ethz.ch to announce your attendance and to get the zoom link.

openBIS User Group Meeting 2021

27-Sep-2021

We are pleased to announce the openBIS User Group Meeting 2021. The event will take place online from 27th to 30th September 2021.

The first day there will be a few talks from users and a round table of discussion. The following days we will offer several workshops on different topics.

The first day is open to anyone, but registration is mandatory. The workshops have limited places available.

For more info and registrations check the event website.

Four-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP

23-Aug-2021

We are pleased to announce a four-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP being held on

August 23 - 26, 2021.

For more details read here.

openBIS ELN and LIMS Training

21-Jan-2021

We offer the openBIS ELN and LIMS Training over Zoom. The training has two parts:

openBIS & ETH RDH Training on 20 January 2021, 9:00 - 12:30
Analyzing data stored in openBIS with Jupyter and Matlab on 21 January 2021, 9:00 - 10:30

For more information and registration, click here

Introduction to openBIS 20.10.0 RC Webinar

12-Nov-2020

The openBIS team is proud to officially introduce openBIS 20.10.0 RC (Release Candidate). This release has a focus not only on introducing new features, but also on refining existing components.

Fast and scalable query engine
Preview of new admin interface with mobile-friendly components
The newly added "Sample Properties" enables easily data modelling with cycles

We would like to invite you to a webinar where we will introduce the major new features of this latest openBIS release. You will also have the chance to talk and ask questions to our openBIS developers. The webinar will take place on Thursday 12.11.2020 at 14:00-15:30.

A video recording of the webinar is available here.

Two day Python Course for C2SM

01-Oct-2020

We offer a two day course introducing Python to members of C2SM.

The course introduces the Python programming language to students and researchers having basic programming skill in another programming language already.

This course is suited for you if:

you did some programming in the past (maybe R, Matlab, C, Java, ...)
you know concepts of "function", "if then else", "while" and "for".
you do not have Python experience yet.

The course will be to fast if you never programmed before.

The course will be given on 1st and 2nd of October 2020, 9:00-13:00 via zoom.

In case of further questions please contact uwe.schmitt@id.ethz.ch.

Video Recording Leonhard Med Info Event - Scientific Data & IT Support for LOOP proposals

03-Sep-2020

Did you miss the Leonhard Med Info-Event or would you like to see it again? Take a look at the video recording! Read more here.

Leonhard Med Info Event - Scientific Data & IT Support for LOOP proposals

02-Sep-2020

The Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich and LOOP offer an info event for principal investigators and other potential applicants who are preparing research proposals for the current LOOP call.

Date: September 2, 2020
Time: 16:00 - 16:45
Location: ZOOM Webinar https://ethz.zoom.us/s/99771588128

Further info:

Contact: Diana Coman Schmid, diana.coman@id.ethz.ch

Scientific IT Services of ETH

Upcoming RDM workshop series in spring semester 2026

Preannouncement: ETH Zurich FAIR Competence Funding

ETH Data Management Campus Launch Event

Upcoming RDM workshop series in autumn semester 2025

EnhanceR Symposium

Euler cluster documentation is moving to https://docs.hpc.ethz.ch

ETH Domain MOOCathon - Help us to Shape the Future of RDM Training

EOSC Data Commons officially underway

EnhanceR Symposium 2025 - Call for Contributions

EnhanceR Seminar Series Talk - NEXUS

Informatiktage 2025

Call for funding RSE Ambassadors

EnhanceR Seminar Series Talk - AlpsB

Love Data Week 2025

Writing Fast(er) Code in Python Workshop

Data Stewardship Network Online Seminar

Applying for RSE jobs: Panel Discussion

We are hiring

Leonhard Med Paper Presentation

2nd Leonhard Med User Meeting

Six-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP

EOSC Project to Build Open Research Data Infrastructure

Rust Fest 2024

SIS Workshop at the Swiss bioinformatics summit.

Data Stewardship Network Online Seminar

SIS presentations at the ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2024

Chatbot-Hackathon

Euler - migration from CentOS to Ubuntu

Long Covid Study with computations on Leonhard Med published in Science

Informatiktage 2024

Introduction to Machine Learning using Python

Introduction to programming and natural language processing (NLP) for Humanities

RDM Workshop series - Spring semester

Love Data Week

Euler IX extension

High Performance Computing (HPC) for genomic applications

New seminar series "Current Topics in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship"

New Calls from the ORD Programme of the ETH Domain

Announcement of new EnhanceR Seminar Series

Free Python for Scientific Computing workshop from Aalto University

Writing Fast(er) Code in Python Workshop

openBIS User Group Meeting 2023

Research Data Management at ETH Zurich

RDM Guidelines at ETH - Information Events

1st Leonhard Med User Meeting

Workshop on technical interoperability between ORD services and repositories in the ETH Domain

Introduction to openBIS

SIS at EGI conference

SIS presentations at the ETH Research Data Management Summer School 2023

Leonhard Med Coffee Hour

Call for proposals to improve ELN interoperability in the ETH Domain

We are hiring

openBIS 20.10.6 released

SIS presentations on Open Science and Open Research Data at NCCRs events

SIS presentations on Active Research Data Management and openBIS at DGM events

We are hiring

Introduction to Machine Learning using Python

Euler VIII operational

RSS Feed for SIS News

openBIS v20.10.5 is now available

Euler VIII extension delivered

Consortium of PSI, Empa, ETHZ wins ETH Board funding for âEstablishâ project on ORD Practices

Research Data Management Workshop Series

New guidelines for Research Data Management at ETH Zurich

Research Data Management Summer School

Applied Machine Learning Days 2022

Online event: AlphaFold2 on the Euler Cluster and Applications

BioMedIT - national personalized health research network fully operational

Open Research Data Project Calls

SIS Code & Data Clinic for BSSE

Interactive scientific computing with computational notebooks (Coffee Lecture)

Getting Started with the Scientific Cluster Workshop

Code and Data Clinic Zurich

openBIS User Group Meeting 2021

Four-day course in Parallel Programming with MPI/OpenMP

openBIS ELN and LIMS Training

Introduction to openBIS 20.10.0 RC Webinar

Two day Python Course for C2SM

Video Recording Leonhard Med Info Event - Scientific Data & IT Support for LOOP proposals

Consortium of PSI, Empa, ETHZ wins ETH Board funding for âEstablishâ project on ORD Practices