Information about the vulnerability „Zenbleed“ (CVE-2023-20593) in services of the GWDG

Yesterday, not only a serious vulnerability in AMD’s Zen 2 CPUs was disclosed, but also a very easy-to-use exploit for this vulnerability was published. By exploiting this vulnerability, sensitive data, such as passwords, can be read from other processes and virtual machines running on the same CPU. This makes this vulnerability especially critical for virtualization … Weiterlesen

Quantum Computing on the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster

Quantum computers and their capabilities is an area of growing global interest and resource allocation. Particularly exciting is the possibility of exponential improvements in classical machine learning algorithms when executed by an equivalent algorithm on a quantum computer. GWDG, along with ZIB and PC2, had the opportunity to provide a window into the world of … Weiterlesen

Configuring VSCode to access GWDG’s HPC Cluster

VSCode is a popular lightweight IDE developed by Microsoft that supports many programming languages and scripts. There are many features and capabilities that can be added to VSCode by installing extensions from the marketplace, including the ability to develop on a remote machine and manage files intuitively using its GUI. This document provides instructions for … Weiterlesen