English Edition: there is a (relatively) new kid on the block - of open source package managers. It's called Pixi: and in this episode I talk to Raniere de Silva (GESIS) and Wolf Vollprecht (Prefix - the company behind Pixi), what the tool brings to the table.

Links:

• https://prefix.dev/ the open source company making pixi available
• https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package manager
• https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
• https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager

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English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them.

Links:

• https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array
• https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
• https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning
  • https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htm
• https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html
• https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs
• https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

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Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen.

Hier ein paar Links:

• https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source
• https://www.icon-model.org/icon_model/getting_started
• https://gitlab.dkrz.de/icon/icon-model
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31FjyhyyqwkvOaj_e-EbJa4F0Z0n8yGU online courses
• https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/icon-team-receives-international-recognition-for-groundbreaking-achievements-in-high-performance-computing
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2025/icon-team-wins-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate-modeling

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