Bits & Bytes  No. 216, August 2024

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about the deployment of the new supercomputer of the MPG, Viper, a new Python software infrastructure on MPCDF clusters, changes in the MPCDF GitLab CI software environment, provisioning of containerized applications, a new S3-compatible object-storage service in the HPC cloud, a new data-publishing platform, an updated policy for MPCDF passwords, and a number of upcoming events.

The  August issue (No. 216) of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes has been published with the following topics:

• High-performance Computing
  • New HPC system Viper (Phase-1: CPU)
• HPC Software News
  • MPCDF GitLab module-image to be discontinued on October 31
  • New module images available in MPCDF GitLab
  • Nvidia HPC SDK version 24.3 available on Raven
• Major Change in the Python Infrastructure on the HPC Clusters
• Introducing containerized Applications as Part of the MPCDF Software Stack
• Nexus-S3: Object Storage in the HPC-Cloud and beyond
• The MetaStore Research Data Publication Platform
• News
  • Password policy
  • 2FA for DataShare and GitLab
• Events
  • AMD GPU workshop & hackathon (November 5-7)
  • Introduction to MPCDF services (October 24)
  • Meet MPCDF
  • MPCDF at Garching Campus Open Doors (October 3)
  • HPC-Cloud workshop (September 10-12)
  • Course on “Python for HPC” (November 26-28)