News at the 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

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

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

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

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

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

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