Bits & Bytes  No. 218, April 2025

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about the new, GPU-powered part of the HPC system Viper, a new release of the ELPA eigensolver library, new capabilities for testing for AMD GPUs in the MPCDF gitlab-CI infrastructure, various tips, tricks, and announcements, and a number of upcoming events.

The  April issue (No. 218) of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes has been published with the following topics:

• High-performance Computing
  • Viper-GPU operational
  • HPC performance monitoring on Viper-GPU
• Software News
  • Activation of python-waterboa as the new Python default
  • New ELPA version 2025.01.001
• GitLab shared CI runner with AMD GPU available
• HowTo: External Usage of GitLab Wikis
• Enhanced SSH Configuration
• News
  • MPCDF Status Page
  • Mandatory 2FA for GitLab
• Events
  • AMD workshop
  • Introduction to MPCDF services
  • MeetMPCDF
  • MPG-DV-Treffen
  • Research Data Alliance - Deutschland-Tagung 2025