MPCDF's Gitlab service needs to move to a new back-end (hardware, OS, network).

To this end, there will be a downtime starting Friday, May 24 at 17:00 CEST.
This affects Gitlab and related services such as Gitlab pages and continuous integration support. more

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about high-performance computing, including software news about the AlphaFold2 deployment at MPCDF, new Intel compilers and CUDA toolchains, and a new release of the eigensolver library ELPA, using Kubernetes in the MPCDF HPC cloud, tips for rendering graphs in gitlab, activities around large language models, and upcoming events. more

Researchers develop novel method to predict the morphology of sugar coats on clinically relevant proteins within minutes. GlycoSHIELD, a new computational approach to study the sugar shields of proteins, is resource-reducing, time-efficient and user-friendly. It was developed in the frame of the Max Planck Society's Dioscuri Programme in a Polish-German cooperation project through international collaborations with researchers in France, Taiwan and Germany, including the MPCDF. where the interactive web-application has been developed and hosted. The study  was recently published in Cell. more

A new release of the publicly available ELPA library of direct eigensolvers for symmetric (hermitian) matrices is out. more

A new issue of the MPCDF computer bulletin Bits&Bytes was released. Read about high-performance computing software, a new concept for provisioning th MPCDF module software for continuous integration in GitLab, a novel software for handling conda environments on HPC Systems,  new features in the HPC-Cloud, and upcoming events. more

Large scale numerical simulations performed by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) on the supercomputers Cobra and Raven at the MPCDF led to new findings that challenge the conventional understanding of solar dynamics and could improve predictions of solar weather in the future, according to their study which was recently published in Nature Astronomy. more

The new supercomputer for the Max Planck Society to be built by Atos and based on latest AMD processor technologies will replace MPCDF’s Cobra system in the course of 2023 and 2024. more