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Viper-GPU at MPCDF

The GPU-powered part of MPCDF’s new supercomputer Viper was successfully benchmarked and ranked high in the most recent issues of the semi-annual Top500 and Green500 lists which were released on June 10, 2025 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg. more

Artist impression of a neural network that connects the observations (left) to the models (right). (c) EHT Collaboration/Janssen et al.

Using supercomputers and software at the MPCDF, a team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands and MPI for Radioastronomy, Bonn) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. more

created by ChatGPT (A. Marek)

Eleven Max-Planck Institutes, together with the MPCDF have joined forces to deploy a dedicated GPU machine specifically for AI applications. A corresponding kick-off workshop was recently hosted by the MPCDF. more

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. more

Large-scale benchmarks with molecular-dynamics code gromacs on HPC system Viper

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. more

Viper-GPU at MPCDF in Feb 2025 (image credit: K. Zilker)

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

Bits & Bytes  No. 217, December 2024

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 machine and a number of upcoming events. more

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