The MZES Computer Department (MZES IT) provides tailored IT support and scientific services. 

We also maintain a MZES server infrastructure, for instance featuring:

• A Shiny Server for Shiny Apps, housing e.g. the Political Documents Archive (polidoc.net)  
• A GPU Cluster/High Performance Server (MZES-HPC) for the quick local calculation e.g. of large language models (such as BERT) available to MZES members
• Project-specific virtual servers e.g. for Wordpress websites for conferences, the Methods Bites blog or temporal web scraping

The members of the MZES Computer Department are: 

Valentin Kalaev, BA
Administration of the MZES IT Infrastructure  

• Network administraion
• IT support for MZES research projects
• Conceptual consulting for research projects (IT)
• Substitute for Julian Bernauer

Dr. Julian Bernauer
IT Infrastructure for the Social Sciences

• MZES Website (technical operation) and databases
• Conceptual consulting for research projects (methods and IT)
• Research in Comparative Politics (political institutions and representation) and Computational Social Science (text analysis and machine learning)
• Substitute for Valentin Kalaev and involved in MZES management