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The Institute for Software Technology is a research institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is located at the DLR sites Cologne, Braunschweig, Oberpfaffenhofen and Berlin-Adlershof in Germany.

Until 2019 the Institute for Software Technology was named ‘Simulation and Software Technology”.

Research tasks
The tasks of the Institute for Software Technology are research and development in the field of innovative software technologies. The current main topics are software for distributed and intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, software for embedded systems, scientific visualization, quantum computing and high-performance computing.

The increasingly complex software landscape requires new approaches to make systems controllable and avoid error states with serious consequences. A core task of the Institute for Software Technology is to develop processes that enable stable software solutions for the future.

The technologies developed at the institute are used in all DLR research areas, from space flight, aviation, transport and energy to digitization and security research. More than 90% of the institute's products are open source software and can be used outside DLR without restrictions. In addition to its own research, the institute offers training in software engineering for employees of DLR institutes or other research centers of the Helmholtz Association.

Departments
The Institute for Software Technology is divided into three departments in addition to the management level:


 * The department High-Performance Computing researches efficient scalable algorithms and data structures for the highly parallel com-Porzputers of the future. Other topics include efficient management and high-performance analysis of large amounts of data as well as research in quantum computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence for software solutions in all of DLR’s research areas. The department consists of the three research groups: "Intelligent Algorithms and Optimization", "Quantum Computing" and "Parallel Numerics".


 * The department Intelligent and Distributed Systems conducts research in the areas of software systems, intelligent and knowledge-based software systems, artificial intelligence, as well as software engineering and software analytics. The department is further divided into the research groups "Distributed Software Systems", "Intelligent Software Systems", "Software Engineering" and "Human Factors in Software Engineering".
 * The department Software for Space Systems and Interactive Visualization investigates new approaches for model-based and formal software methods to improve the design process for reliable space missions. Those approaches aim at seamless processes from early concurrent design sessions to automaticly generated on-board software. This research is complemented by research activities in high-performance scientific visualization for the post-processing of very large-scale scientific datasets. Additionally, interactive visualization in virtual and mixed reality environments is an important research branch to be incorporated into digital twin research activities at DLR. The department consists of four research groups: "Modeling and Simulation", "Onboard Software Systems", "Scientific Visualization", and "3D Interaction".

Web page
Homepage of the Institute for Software Technology