Press briefings, promotion of industry/science collaboration and organization of conferences in the areas of grid and cloud computing, global parallel file systems, storage and storage management, parallel clusters, and network infrastructures.

Mile stones in this field have been:

• Demonstration of the Baden-Württemberg
  extended LAN (Stuttgart, 1988)
• Foundation of the High Performance Networking Forum
  (HPCN 1996, Milan)
• Symposium on a Data Infrastructure
  for the State of Baden-Württemberg (2000)
• High Performance Storage System for Solaris
  (SC2000 Industry Exhibit, Denver)
• Demonstration of 10-Gbit/s Ethernet WAN in BelWü
  (Universität Hohenheim, 2004)
• Demonstration of 10-Gbit/s Fibre Channel SAN
  (Universität Stuttgart/Cisco, 2004)
• Cisco MDS 9513 Multilayer Director Beta
  Test & Press Release (San Diego, 2006)
• 7th Storage Consortium Conference for
  IT Users & Data Center Operators (2010)
• HLRS Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel
  File Systems (Stuttgart, 2002-2012)

7th Storage Consortium Conference on Energy Efficiency, Virtualization and Cloud Computing (Stuttgart, March 2010)