Resources
Digital Humanities infrastructure
across Austria
DHInfra.at partners offer shared infrastructure in four areas. This is the overview — open each one for what it is, how it is used, and who to contact.
GPU & LLM Cluster
Train and fine-tune models, run interactive GPU notebooks, and call a hosted OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding API — built for Digital Humanities, not generic HPC.
Read moreDigitization
Multispectral imaging (XpeCAM, MISHA), a scanning robot for fragile loose-leaf collections, and borrowable inference GPUs — available on request.
Read moreSaaS / IaaS & storage
Database-as-a-service, dev/test VMs and CI runners, plus short and mid-term project storage — a development-first complement to your own institution.
Read moreOpen Source Software
Three DH tools improved through DHInfra investment — QLever, liiive.now and Zellij. Usable on our cluster and elsewhere.
Read morePartner contributions
Who contributes to each area. ★ core contributor · ✓ supporting contributor. See Partners for contacts.
| Area | KFUG | PLUS | UWK | UniAK | LFUI | TUW | ÖNB | ÖAW | UniVie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digitization | ✓ | ★ | ★ | ||||||
| GPU / ML | ★ | ✓ | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SaaS / IaaS & storage | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Software | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Registered research infrastructure
The hardware and facilities behind DHInfra.at are registered in the national research-infrastructure database (FI DB) of the BMBWF, across the participating institutions. Each entry names its contact person. Some entries are still being applied for.
Compute
| Facility | Institution | FI DB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU Cluster for Digital Humanities | KFUG | Entry |
| GPU Cluster for Digital Humanities | UWK | Entry |
| Database Research Cluster Database-as-a-Service and test/development infrastructure-as-a-Service for DH. | PLUS | Entry |
| GPU Server / Storage Processing of captured imaging data via deep learning and other methods. | TUW | requested |
Digitization & imaging
| Facility | Institution | FI DB |
|---|---|---|
| ScanRobot (robotic scanner for loose sheets) Prototype robotic scanner for loose sheets up to A4; optimised for early-20th-century registration forms. | UIBK | Entry |
| Canon imageFORMULA DR-G2090 production scanner Production document scanner; currently digitising a 1.5M index-card catalogue (Univ. Wien Numismatics × Univ. Innsbruck). | UIBK | requested |
| 5 repro stands with Sony ILX-LR1 cameras 61 MP repro camera rigs for fast, high-quality archival document capture. | UIBK | requested |
| 2 NVIDIA DGX Spark On-prem inference for small/medium models — for privacy-sensitive archive digitization. | UIBK | requested |
| XpeCAM multispectral imaging system Mobile, filter-based multispectral capture (350–1200 nm, 30 filters); no darkroom required. | TUW | Entry |
| MISHA multispectral imaging system Mobile multispectral imaging for archives (flat objects); used for the Cetinje charters. | TUW | Entry |