Bits & Bytes  No. 220, December 2025

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about the HPC system Viper-GPU, various software news, a new LLM inferencing service, updates to the MPCDF gitlab CI infrastructure, a major overhaul of the software infrastructure underlying the MPCDF HPC-Cloud, SSO for Globus, as well as a number of announcements.  
 

The  December issue (No. 220) of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes has been published with the following topics:

• High-performance Computing
  • Viper News
• Software News
  • AMD software on Viper-GPU
  • Major NumPy version update introduced with python-waterboa/2025.06
  • Intel software stack
  • Provisioning of AI Software
  • New ELPA module version scheme
  • New version of JAX on Viper-GPU and Raven
• Introducing the MPCDF LLM Inference Service
• GitLab CI
  • Building Docker images with Podman-Runners
  • New Tags for MPCDF GitLab Runners
  • New naming scheme for CI module images containing CUDA and ROCm
• HPC-Cloud software updates
• Globus migration to SelfService/MPCDF SSO
• News & Events
  • Multifactor authentication: deactivation of E-mail tokens
  • International HPC Summer School 2026
  • AMD workshop
  • Meet MPCDF
  • Introduction to MPCDF Services