Facilities

Leipzig Temir Lab
Paulinum P90532355
30 workstations

Webis Space Lab
Cyberspace
10 users

Weimar Webis Lab 1
B11 012
10 workstations

Weimar Webis Lab 2
Digital Bauhaus Lab R2013564
5 workstations

Weimar Webis Lab 3
HK7 R104 - R1063797 | 3781
13 workstations

Deltaweb Cluster [2018]
B11 Serverroom NK031055
Specification: 78 nodes, 1248 cores at 2.1 GHz, 10 TB RAM, 12 480 TB HDD

Webis storage server [2017]
Digital Bauhaus Lab K043580
Specification: 1 server, 20 cores at 2.2 GHz, 0.1 TB RAM, 240 TB HDD

Gammaweb Cluster [2016, 2021, 2024]
B11 Serverroom NK031055
Specification: 10 nodes, 448 cores at 2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 3.2 GHz, 8.9 TB RAM, 78 TB SSD; 1.7 TB GPU RAM, 4 Nvidia H100, 24 Nvidia A100, 24 GeForce GTX 1080

Betaweb Cluster [2015]
Digital Bauhaus Lab K043580
Specification: 135 nodes, 1620 cores at 2.4 GHz, 25.4 TB RAM, 4060 TB HDD

Webis rack servers [2009 - 2022]
Retired
Specification: 7 servers, up to 12 cores at 2.4 GHz, 128 GB RAM, 21.6 TB HDD

Alphaweb Cluster [2009 - 2021]
Retired
Specification: 44 nodes, 88 cores at 1 GHz and 2 GHz, 0.4 TB RAM, 352 TB HDD

Betaweb ECK Monitoring
Monitor and manage Betaweb Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) stack.
[kibana]

Betaweb Hadoop Monitoring
Monitor Hadoop jobs and storage.
[yarn] [hdfs]

Consul
Webis Infrastructure Overview.

Infrastructure Monitoring
Monitor Webis Infrastructure.
[grafana] [alertmanager] [prometheus, frequent prometheus queries] [kubernetes dashboard]

Mailing Lists
Configure our mailing lists.
[webis] [webisservices] [webisstud]

AI Models
AI models available through the Webis cluster.
[stable diffusion, dall-e mini]

Annotation Tools
Services for annotating data.
[doccano: service, notes] [label studio]

Artifactory
Repository server for Maven and Gradle.
[notes]

Calendar
[deadlines] [meetings]

Communication Channels
We use the following channels for communication:

• General Discord: ask staff for access
• Discord for Webis lectures: ask staff for access
• Mailing list staff: webis@listserv.uni-weimar.de
• Mailing list students: webisstud@listserv.uni-weimar.de
• Skype
• X: @webis_de
• Gather Town: ask staff for access

Daily Standup Meeting:

• Weimar: 8:55 a.m.
• Kassel/Jena: 10:10 a.m.

CVS: webis.uni-weimar.de:/srv/cvsroot
Internal repository that models the entire organizational and operational structure of Webis. The following notes files specify important places and guidelines:

• bibliographies-notes.txt (in <bibliograhies>/)
• proposals-generic-notes.txt (in <proposals-in-progress>/proposals-generic/)
• research-generic-notes.txt (in <research-in-progress>/research-generic/)
• webis-organization-notes.txt (in <university-we-in-progress>/webis/webis-organization/)
• webis-web-notes.txt (in <university-we-in-progress>/webis/webis-web/)

Docker
Container repositories.
[dockerhub] [self-hosted]

Elasticsearch
Betaweb Elasticsearch Cluster.
[kibana]

GitHub
GitHub account that hosts the published source code for reproducing Webis research.

GitLab
Internal repository for organizing the code developed in the Webis group.
[git onboard] [notes] [project templates]

JupyterHub
Notebook server.

Paper Renamer
Easily generate correct names for saving research papers according to Webis naming convention. Also supports generating filenames from arXiv URLs.

Statistics and Mathematics
Top resources with different didactic flavors.
[boundless statistics] [mathworld] [neue statistik] [nist statistics] [tutorialspoint statistics] [statsref]

Webis Command
Helper utility for automating every-day tasks in the Webis group.
[cheatsheet]

Admin Knowledge Base
Notes on hardware / software administration.
[issues] [git repository]

Cluster Notes
Notes and tutorials on Cluster setup / configuration / usage.
[ceph dashboard] [cephfs] [S3] [datascience image] [docker] [hadoop] [slurm] [kubernetes]

Thesis Knowledge Base
Notes on thesis writing.
[poster template] [thesis template]

VPN
Notes on Webis VPN setup.
[webis authentication server]

Webis FAQ
Notes on working at Webis.

Webis TODOs
GitLab issue boards for tasks.
[boards: organization, proposals, research, teaching]

Update Lecturenotes
Select the courses in the lecturenotes repository which are to be updated. The service generates the lecturenotes slides, the slides browser thumbnails, and the HTML files as specified in bibliographies-webis and finally updates the Webis website. For the following domains the specified pages are generated:

• webis.de: courses map, lecturenotes

Update Website
The service generates the HTML files as specified in bibliographies-webis and updates the Webis website. For the following domains the specified pages are generated:

• webis.de: completed theses, data, events, lecturenotes, publications, research

• kassel.webis.de: funded projects, people
• weimar.webis.de: funded projects, people

• pan.webis.de: data, publications
• touche.webis.de: data, publications

Upload PDF Files
Select and upload PDF files (lecturenotes slides, papers, posters, talk slides, theses) for the Webis website from your local computer to the cloudflare repository. Clicking a link below will open a corresponding upload page:

• webis.de: completed theses, lecturenotes, publications

• pan.webis.de: publications
• touche.webis.de: publications

Edit Website Sources
Edit the HTML source for those webpages of the Webis website that are not specified in bibliographies-webis. Manually maintained webpages (via GitHub Pages):

• webis.de: courses map, events, facilities, for students, research

• kassel.webis.de: awards, graduate seminar, teaching
• weimar.webis.de: awards, graduate seminar

• pan.webis.de: events, organization, shared tasks
• touche.webis.de: events, organization, shared tasks

[web page templates: demo, research, shared task, workshop] [todos]

Webspace
File server and directory: ceph.dw.webis.de:/storage/web/files, /mnt/ceph/storage/web/files