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Previous Editions

  • No.205

    • High-performance Computing

    • FAQ 4 2FA

    • Charliecloud: containers for HPC

    • repo2docker: Running Jupyter Notebooks via Docker

    • News & Events

  • No.204

    • Two-factor authentication at the MPCDF

    • High-performance Computing

    • Rclone - The Swiss army knife of cloud storage

    • ELPA eigensolvers further enhanced

    • News & Events

  • No.203

    • New Director of the MPCDF

    • High-performance Computing

    • Jupyter Notebook as a service

    • FTP decommissioning

    • Tips & Tricks

    • Ecosystem Data Management

    • News & Events

  • No.202

    • High-performance Computing

    • Python on HPC systems

    • Cluster hosting

    • The MPCDF SelfService: Guest-User and Self-Management for GitLab and DataShare

    • Archival

    • News & Events

  • No.201

    • High-performance Computing

    • HPC Performance Monitoring System

    • ELPA eigensolvers further pushed to unexcelled performance and scaling behavior

    • New Web-based Remote Visualization Service

    • Collaborative Document Editing in DataShare

    • News & Events

  • No.200

    • Bits & Bytes turns 50!

    • High-performance Computing

    • Data-Analytics on MPCDF HPC systems

    • Keeper - Archive the way you work

    • New Projects and Collaborations

    • News

  • No.199

    • High-performance Computing

    • The evolution of the Anonymous FTP server and data sharing at MPCDF

    • Lightweight performance measurement tools

    • GitLab: Online Editing of Source Code

  • No.198

    • HPC

    • Spark on Draco

    • Major Upgrade of DataShare Service

    • SSH security considerations

  • No.197

    • DataHub

    • Yacora on the Web

    • High-performance Computing

    • Inastemp: a Vectorization Library to Accelerate C++ Codes

  • No.196

    • Singularity: containers for HPC

    • Transferring data to and from MPCDF

    • DataShare via WebDAV

    • System and software upgrade on the HPC extension system Draco

    • MPCDF’s GitLab now supports Continuous Integration & Delivery

  • No.195

    • Draco cluster extended by large-memory nodes

    • A simple command-line client for the MPCDF DataShare (ownCloud) service

    • BagIt - command-line tool supporting the BagIt compound data format

    • Archiving your data with HPSS

    • Visualizing data from molecular simulations with VisIt

  • No.194

    • HPC

    • Galaxy instance for the MPG

    • Python infrastructure

    • Visualization

    • Recent optimizations of ELPA eigensolvers

    • csvkit - A command line suite of tools for converting and working with CSV data

    • Events

  • No.193

    • DRACO as an extension of HYDRA

    • VM Backups

    • TeD-T: The Term Definition Tool

    • iRODS

    • Uberftp - A powerful command line tool for gridftp based data management

  • No.192

    • Remote visualization on Hydra

    • VNC remote desktops on MPCDF Linux systems

    • BagIt: smart packaging of files

    • Gitlab update

    • DataShare update

    • python infrastructure at the MPCDF

    • Change in Forcheck

    • MPCDF archive system – expansion of GHI for projects

    • ELPA: improved eigensolvers for computational materials science

    • Vagrant – Virtual Development Environments made easy

  • No.191

    • High-Reformance Computing

    • The MPCDF GitLab Service

    • Upgrade of the Visualization Infrastructure

    • New Centre of Excellence: NOMAD Laboratory

    • Mailing problems with new DSL

    • Debugging Memory Corruption with the Address Sanitizer Library

  • No.190

    • MPCDF, the new name of the RZG

    • High-throughput data transfers using Globus Online

    • Interactive graphics with x3d(om)

    • Projects

    • 100-Gbps wide area network connection

    • Tips and Tricks

  • No.189

    • Sync & Share

    • HPC system Hydra

  • No.188

    • Taco - A Metadata System for Hierarchically Structured Data Collections

    • HPC System Hydra

    • Virtual Hosting Environment

    • Extreme Scaling and Visualization of HPC Applications

  • No.187

    • Status of the Max Planck Supercomputer Hydra

    • Hydra Environment for GPU and MIC Applications

    • GIT Hosting Service

    • Long-Term Archiving

  • No.186

    • New Max Planck Supercomputer Hydra: Main Installation

    • Intel Software License Agreement for MPG

    • Sofware News

    • Storage/Archive Systems

    • Redundant connection to the German Research Network

  • No.185

    • Next Generation Max Planck Supercomputer at RZG

    • HPSS - High Performance Storage System at RZG

    • VisIt, a parallel visualization and data analysis tool

    • Software News

  • No.184

    • Next Generation Supercomputer

    • Software updates on HPC systems

    • New Scalable Eigenvalue Solver

    • HPSS - High Performance Storage System

    • Performance Analysis with IBM HPC toolkit

  • No.183

    • New Linux cluster for remote visualization

    • Code validation tools

    • Power6 software upgrade

  • No.182

    • New Bits & Bytes

    • Introducing Environment Modules

    • GPGPU Computing

    • Applications: Performance Analysis with Scalasca

    • Network Configuration Templates for PCs

    • Update on Mass Storage

    • System Environments for HPC

  • No.181

    • vip - The new IBM Power6 Supercomputer at RZG

    • genius - The IBM Blue Gene/P at RZG

    • DEISA2

    • Archiving at RZG

    • Video Conferencing

  • No.180

    • Genius - The IBM Blue Gene/P system at RZG

    • The Munich-ATLAS-Tier2 project

    • Long Time Data Preservation

  • No.179

    • The Next Generation Supercomputer of the Max Planck Society at RZG

    • Refurbishment of the Old RZG Computer Machine Hall

    • Emailservices at RZG

    • Virtual Private Network - Accessing Local Resources from the Internet

    • New Tape Library at RZG

    • Linux-Clusters: Consolidation of the Used Distribution

    • Data Visualization Support

  • No.178

    • New architectures doubling compute power at RZG

    • DEISA - Supercomputing at European scale under way

    • No virus-check on AFS-volumes

  • No.177

    • Xeon-based Linux cluster vs. IBM Regatta for small jobs

  • No.176

    • IBM p690 Supercomputer

    • Migrating Filesystem (HSM)

    • Linux Cluster Expansion

    • Numerical Libraries

  • No.175

    • IBM p690 Supercomputer

    • Notes on virus attacks

    • Active Directory

    • Mozilla as substitute for Netscape

  • No.174

    • Trends in Videoconferencing in IPP & MPG

    • IBM p690 Supercomputer

    • GPFS on the Linux Clusters

    • Using the NAG library from C and C++ programs

    • New Color Printer at RZG dispatcher room

  • No.173

    • Status IBM Regatta

    • New Linux Cluster

    • Migration of Kerberos Server