News at the MPCDF

The newly deployed supercomputer of the MPG, Raven, was ranked in the June 2021 edition of the biannual Top500 and Green500 lists of fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputers. more

The deployment of the new high-performance computing system Raven has been completed. Users from the Max Planck Society have access to 1592 compute nodes based on the brand new Intel Xeon IceLake-SP processor, and  192 GPU compute nodes with 4 Nvidia A100 GPUs each. more

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about high-performance computing and data analytics, containers, and news about MPCDF services and events. more

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institutes of Developmental Biology in Tübingen and the MPCDF develops new search capabilities that will allow to compare the biochemical makeup of different species from across the tree of life. Its combination of accuracy and speed is hitherto unrivalled. Their results are being published in Nature Methods on April 7. more

The MPCDF has released a new homepage and a new technical documentation platform for users. more

Frankfurt scientists identify possible Achilles’ heel of Sars-CoV-2 virus more