The aim of the DSC is to enable the most realistic possible simulation of the highly complex deep drilling process, including planned concrete drilling projects, with the coupled large-scale scientific equipment "software and hardware simulator". This "pre-simulation" should help to avoid dangerous and environmentally damaging situations in subsequent drilling practice, reduce cost-intensive downtimes, improve the ecological footprint (incl._{CO2 balance}) and enable long-term stable structures in the geological subsurface. The research results obtained at the DSC will thus be used in the design, planning and realization of future geothermal and underground storage projects in Germany and abroad.