August 2026 - Blablador-news - lists.fz-juelich.de

We're back!
by Strube, Alexandre 21 Aug '26

21 Aug '26

It seems that the cloud services are back, so both the websites blablador.fz-juelich.de <http://blablador.fz-juelich.de/>, staging.blablador.fz-juelich.de <http://staging.blablador.fz-juelich.de/> and the api server are back! Great, we can go for the weekend and let the agents make our gpus go BRRRR I’ll continue monitoring the situation throughout the weekend and optimizing models for the Juwels Booster supercomputer. Have a nice weekend! Alex, the one who barks (rightfully so) at jsc-cloud :-)

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Unexpected shutdown
by Strube, Alexandre 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

There is a big problem with the JSC cloud today, and all services will have to be shut down. I am sorry, don’t blame the messenger! Alex

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Continue...D
by Strube, Alexandre 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

It’s my first cross-spam between the ML and Blablador-news mailing list. I hope it’s the last, and I hope this reaches the maximum number of people. Some of you might use VSCode, and for years I recommended Continue.Dev. Until they got bought by mr. Musk, from Twitter fame. Even though there are workarounds to avoid telemetry, I stopped recommending them. Hell, continue.dev probably has enough money now. ANYWAY, I digress. One of ours, Ata UI Haleem, from ICE-2, made his own extension: CONTINUED. I’ll stop blabbering and let him speak for himself: Continued v1.0.0: Public Release, Open VSX / Eclipse Support & Community Channels Continued—the open-source AI coding assistant and extensible agent platform, has officially reached its v1.0.0 Community Release. Designed specifically for researchers and developers using Helmholtz infrastructure (Blablador) alongside local, offline AI models (Ollama), the platform now includes major milestones for open collaboration, IDE compatibility, and widespread adoption (2,000+ installs on VS Code Marketplace and 600+ on Open VSX). Key Updates & Community Milestones: Proven Community Adoption: Now powering 2,600+ combined installations across VS Code, VSCodium, and Open VSX environments. Public GitHub Repository: The source code is now fully open and available in the public domain for review, issues, and contributions. Open VSX & Eclipse Theia Support: In addition to VS Code, Continued v1.0.0 is live on the Open VSX Registry, enabling native 1-click installation inside VSCodium, Eclipse Theia, and Cursor. Community & Discussions Hub: A GitHub Discussions channel and a formal Contribution Guide (CONTRIBUTING.md) are live to gather user feedback, feature requests, and community-contributed plugins. v1.0.0 Extensible Agent & Plugin System: Users can build, edit, share, or delete custom plugins locally (.continued/plugins/) directly within the sidebar UI—allowing researchers to hook private datasets, specialized prompt sets, and analysis scripts directly into the agent's workflow without external frameworks like LangChain. Quick Links: GitHub Repository: https://github.com/ataulhaleem/continued Open VSX (VSCodium / Eclipse Theia): https://open-vsx.org/extension/AtaUlHaleem/continued VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AtaUlHaleem.continued Discussions Channel: https://github.com/ataulhaleem/continued/discussions/1 Contribution Guide: https://github.com/ataulhaleem/continued/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Please feel free to drop any suggestion via GitHub discussion channel. Best regards, Ata ----------------------------------------------- Ata Ul Haleem Institute of Climate and Energy Systems (ICE) Juelich Systems Analysis (ICE-2) <https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ice/ice-2> Phone: +49 160 92236676 E-Mail: a.haleem(a)fz-juelich.de <mailto:a.haleem@fz-juelich.de>

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