MPCDF picture of the month: April 2025

MPCDF picture of the month: April 2025

The racks of all our computers are standing on a raised floor, which allows our technicians to easily access the hardware components. Cables and water pipes are properly layed in the level underneath also enhancing working safety, because trip hazards are avoided. The raised floor has a working height of 80 cm thus providing enough space for all required infrastructure.

Welcome to the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)

Mission

The Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF, formerly known as RZG) is a cross-institutional competence centre of the Max Planck Society to support computational and data sciences. In close collaboration with domain scientists from the Max Planck Institutes the MPCDF is engaged in the development and optimization of algorithms and applications for high performance computing and data analytics as well as in the design and implementation of solutions for data-intensive projects. The MPCDF operates state-of-the-art supercomputers, several mid-range compute systems and data repositories for various Max Planck institutes, and provides an up-to-date infrastructure for data management including long-term archival.

Operational Information

View the status of MPCDF services.

Help yourself in the MPCDF Selfservice.

In case of problems or questions concering MPCDF services please use one of these communication channels:

  • for technical issues send an email or open a ticket in helpdesk
  • for organisational issues send an email to office@mpcdf.mpg.de
MPP users please contact the IT support at MPP and consult the  Tier2 technical documentation.

IPP users please contact the IPP Service Desks in Garching or Greifswald for problems or questions or search for information available in the IPP Intranet.

News at MPCDF

News

A team of researchers including the MPCDF used the HPC system Viper (CPU) at MPCDF to perform large-scale performance benchmarks with the molecular-dynamics simulation code gromacs.

The second phase of the new supercomputer Viper of the Max Planck Society is now open for early user operation.

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about the availability of the AlphaFold3 software on Raven, the introdution of the MPCDF HPC-monitoring system on the new Viper machine, and other HPC news, about a a new AI ...

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Upcoming Events

Introduction to MPCDF Services

May 8, 2025 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
online via Zoom

AMD-GPU Workshop with Hackathon for VIPER-GPU

May 13, 2025 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - May 15, 2025 05:00 PM
online via Zoom