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English edition [EN]: We're kickstarting a round of new ByteSized RSE online classes and podcast episodes with an episode on containers. Focusing on Podman (used in the online class) and Docker. My guest for this episode is Simon Li from the Uni. Dundee.

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Containers:

• https://docs.docker.com Docker
  • https://www.docker.com/pricing/faq/ Info regarding the Docker licenses
  • https://docs.docker.com/get-started/docker-overview/ An overview of how Docker works
• https://podman.io Podman homepage
  • https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker migrating from Docker to Podman
  • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/run-containers-mac-podman running Podman on a Mac
  • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/run-podman-windows running Podman on Windows
  • https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/podman-for-windows.md more on Podman for Windows
• https://containerd.io another container tool
• https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html repro2docker, the tool Simon mentioned
• https://kubernetes.io Kubernetes
• https://apptainer.org Apptainer (formerly Singularity)

Container history:

• https://www.aquasec.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-containers-from-1970s-chroot-to-docker-2016/ brief overview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs the presentation from 2013 when Docker was introduced at PyCon that year
• https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChrootHistory a brief history of the chroot(2) command of Unix
• https://fre

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Deutsche Version: In dieser letzten Folge vor Weihnachten treffe ich mich mit Priv. Doz. Dr Georg Hager vom Rechenzentrum der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Georg Hager gibt uns einen kleinen Überblick in die Entwicklung von HPC Rechnern, also Hochleistungsrechnern und wir sprechen über die Herausforderung bzgl. Software Entwicklung und wie man Personal and HPC Rechner heranführt.

Links:

• https://hpc.fau.de/person/georg-hager/
• https://www.nhr-verein.de/en Der NHR e.V.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor Vektor Rechner
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/508045 "Cluster" von PCs, das Beowulf System
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrinet Myrinet Netzwerk
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand Infiniband Netzwerk
• https://www.openmp.org Open MP für paralleles Programmieren
• https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit NVIDIA CUDA toolkit

Etwas zur Geschichte von älteren Modellen

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z23 Der Zuse 2023 Rechner
• https://horst-zuse.hier-im-netz.de/Konrad_Zuse_index_english_html/rechner_z23.html Konrad Zuse und der Z23
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/n4wwp4/the_zuse_z23_at_the_university_of_erlangen_fully/?rdt=55435 der Z23 am Rechenzentrum in Erlangen
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory Magnetische Speicher
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_memory Trommelspeicher

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• https://www.esciencecenter.nl Home page of the eScience Center
• https://www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-proposals/fellowship-open-call/ Fellowship programme at the eScience Center

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L'édition française: On a beaucoup de promesse sur l'usage du calcul quantique. Ghislain Vaillant discute avec Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois de GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) pour jeter un coup d'œil aux coulisses de cette technologie fascinante.

• https://www.genci.fr/connaitre-genci/calcul-haute-performance-intelligence-artificielle-et-calcul-quantique
• https://www.genci.fr/actualites/france-hybrid-hpc-quantum-initiative-hqi-genci-et-le-cea-annoncent-la-selection-de-0

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English Edition [EN]: In this episode I am looking at two different champion schemes: one at Imperial College London, focussing on research software and the other at Cambridge University for research data. My guests are Jeremy Cohen and Mike Bearpark from Imperial and Clair Castle, Sacha Jones and Lutfi Ben Othman from Cambridge University.

Imperial:

• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/call-for-rs-champions-2024/ Champion scheme at Imperial
• https://www.ukri.org/news/new-funding-to-support-research-technical-professionals/ UKRI funding
• https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/m.bearpark Profile Mike Bearpark
• https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/jeremy.cohen Profile Jeremy Cohen

Cambridge

• https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/ The data home page
• https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/intro-data-champions Introduction to the Champion scheme at Cambridge
• https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/research-data-management-team the Research Data Management team at Cambridge University

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Diesmal geht es an die TU Braunschweig, von wo aus Jan Linxweiler uns über seine Arbeit am Suresoft Projekt erzählt - und uns erklärt warum es wichtig ist, nachhaltige Software für die Wissenschaft zu schreiben.

Links

• https://suresoft.dev Die Homepage des Suresoft Projektes
• https://zenodo.org/communities/suresoft/ Suresoft on Zenodo
• https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202210121528-0 Suresoft Konzept Papier
• https://www.dfg.de/de Homepage der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
• https://www.tu-braunschweig.de Die TU Braunschweig
• https://www.fau.de die Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• https://de-rse.org/de/index.html der deRSE e.V. - Verein der EntwicklerInnen von Forschungssoftware

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English edition: My guest this week is Kurt Lust from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and part of the user support team of LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure). Acc to the website, LUMI is Europe's fastest supercomputer. Kurt tells us what it takes to run a machine like that and all the gotchas that he and his colleagues encounter.

Links

• https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/about-lumi/ LUMI website (About)
• https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_en EuroHPC Joint Undertaking site
• https://klust.github.io Kurt Lust on GitHub

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English Edition: Meet Kenneth Hoste and Alan O'Cais who will tell us about EESSI,The European Environment for Scientific Software Installation for high performance computing (HPC).

Links:

• https://www.eessi.io Home page of EESSI
• https://docs.easybuild.io EESSI docs
• https://github.com/boegel Kenneth's GitHub page
• https://cernvm.cern.ch our friend CERN VM/VMFS
• https://lmod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ LMOD docs
• https://docs.easybuild.io Easybuild
• https://www.multixscale.eu MultiXscale website
• https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/kick-10-centres-excellence-hpc-support-transition-towards-exascale-2023-01-26_en
• https://www.eessi.io/docs/blog/#eessi-nominated-for-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards-2024 EESSI nominated for HPC Wire award
• https://www.izum.si/en/vega-en/ VEGA HPC system
• https://www.it4i.cz/en/infrastructure/karolina Karolina HPC system
• https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/pearc/pearc19_program/views/includes/files/pap139s3-file1.pdf Canadian proposal
• ttps://ubcbraincircuits.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data_storage/compute_canada.html Compute Canada

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