The IPVR enables research in a very wide and complex field of parallel and distributed computing in a cooperative way.
Cooperation therefore occurs in various forms.
Already when the institute was founded, a participation of various companies in the activities of the IPVR was agreed upon. This was espacially meant to ensure a quick and critical testing of the results concerning the real requirements of the companies. Furthermore it is intended to define the research projects in such a way that several teams of the institute can contribute from their special point of view. The basic idea is to organize the cooperation with industry not primarily by means of work groups but by projects. This also helps to easily achieve a thematic focus.