Introduction

Overview

The MPCDF provides facilities for high-performance computing (HPC), capacity computing (Linux clusters) and remote visualization and supports general-purpose and dedicated systems. The operating systems used at the MPCDF are Linux-based. Users login to one of the gateway machines via ssh. From the gateway machines the login nodes of all compute facilities can be accessed. Note that two-factor authentication (2FA) is enforced which is documented as part of the FAQ.

Personal settings (e.g. passwords, login shells) can be customized at userspace/mympcdf (login required).

Information on the available software can be found here.

General support requests going beyond the information provided by the present documentation and FAQ can be addressed to the MPCDF helpdesk.

Dedicated, high-level application support, e.g. for HPC code development and optimization, and machine-learning projects is offered to all Max-Planck researchers and their collaboration partners.

Compute Facilities

Gateway Systems

• Gateway machines for accessing compute and data resources at the MPCDF

High-Performance Computing

• MPG Supercomputer raven (since September 2020) HPC system on basis of Intel processors: Interim system with 516 Intel CascadeLake AP processors (with 96 cores per node), final system (in 2021) with Intel IceLake processors and Nvidia GPUs (A100)

• MPG Supercomputer cobra (since 2018) HPC system on basis of Intel processors (Skylake) and Nvidia GPUs (V100)

Linux Compute Clusters

• Dedicated Linux Compute Clusters hosted for several Max Planck Institutes

Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization

• Infrastructure and services for interactive remote data analysis and visualization

• Jupyter notebooks, Remote visualization, Remote desktops enable convenient web-based access to the HPC systems and selected Linux Compute Clusters