The IT department at GSI serves several purposes. On one hand it operates and manages the entire IT and HPC infrastructure at GSI and FAIR including the planned FAIR Tier-0 data center. On the other hand several research and development projects are conducted with the focus of building and improving a highly efficient and high performance IT infrastructure for the GSI and FAIR research. Within that context the latest technologies are used or developed in order to ensure environmental compatibility and resource efficiency, including Green-IT.

To date GSI is operating the most advanced and efficient data centers world wide, the largest, highest performing and most cost effective mass storage system, based on Lustre. Further the computing model for FAIR is being developed.