TU Darmstadt offers excellent digital research infrastructures for cutting-edge research in all disciplines. In particular, it has outstanding computing capacities in the fields of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

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The Lichtenberg High Performance Computer of TU Darmstadt

The “Lichtenberg II” High Performance Computer of TU Darmstadt enables us to carry out cutting edge research and use highly interdisciplinary approaches to tackle problems in engineering and natural sciences, such as in the area of computational engineering. The Research Facilities and Major Research Instrumentation programme from the federal government and federal states provided funding of around 30 million euros for the high performance computer.

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The Gauß Alliance

TU Darmstadt is a member of the Gauß-Allianz, an association of computing centres that have a high level of expertise in high-performance computing. The Alliance has the aim of promoting high-performance computing (HPC) as an independent strategic research activity and helping it gain international recognition.

AI supercomputers fortytwo and fortythree

The AI supercomputers fortytwo and fortythree are computing clusters specially designed for machine learning and training of large AI models. At the time of commissioning, fortythree ranked 108th on the current Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The computing clusters are operated by hessian.AI, the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, and can also be used by external organizations.

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Research data initiatives

NFDI4ING

Since 2025, TU Darmstadt has been the spokesperson for the NFDI4Ing consortium. The main goal of NFDI4ING is to support engineers in all areas of research with their data management requirements.

Further NFDI project participations

TU Darmstadt is involved in other NFDI consortia in various roles. TU Darmstadt is a co-applicant in NFDIxCS and participates in many others.

Digital research data

The “TUdata” team has been set up by the Executive Board of TU Darmstadt to support all members of the university with saving, archiving, publishing and the subsequent use of research data. The team brings together expertise from the University and State Library, the University IT-Service and Computing Centre and the Directorate for Research and Technology Transfer.

Research data management

Guidelines on how to manage digital research data at TU Darmstadt