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GLM-5.2
by Strube, Alexandre 27 Jun '26

27 Jun '26

Hello Blabladores, a lot of you asked me about GLM-5.2 - some even before it was actually available :-) I hear you. In fact, I had the weights downloaded about 15 minutes after it came out (I had a monitor set up for it). I also wanted it running, and I have been trying hard. Even though I had been the whole time in the International Supercomputing Conference this week, I was still working between the booth time, talks, meeetings and networking. You might have seen GLM popping up in and out of Blablador’s model list. That’s me optimizing it. At some point it was working for the websites, but would produce garbage for agents. Some people got upset. I am sorry, I was just as disappointed and confused. Yesterday, with the help of Blablador itself, I got it running in a manner that I got satisfied with the performance and the responses for agents, on 16 H100 gpus, graciously borrowed by the Helmholtz-WestAI project. Thanks, Fritz and Stefan! The problem is that this is a temporary allocation, and this machine is VERY busy. I do not intend to run it continuously there. Our genius colleague Pavel Mezentsev managed to have it running on A100 gpus, even though the model was made to NOT run on this generation of GPUs, and I am trying to learn from him. I have a couple more A100s available where I can drop this model. So, this email is to explain the current situation. TLDR: GLM-5.2 will be appearing and disappearing, as it is on a busy shared machine. It will appear in a more permanent fashion as soon as I return to Jülich and get it running on older equipment I have available for it. That is all. Thank you all for your patience. Let’s bark!® Alex

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by Strube, Alexandre 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

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continue.dev is not recommended anymore.
by Strube, Alexandre 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Continue.dev was bought by Cursor Cursor was bought by Elon Musk Concidentally, the option to NOT send telemetry to their servers has been disabled. We don't recommend anyone to use Continue.dev anymore. The guide now has a deprecation notice. https://sdlaml.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.de/ai/guides/blablador_on_vscode/ Let’s use something properly open!

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should we try Mellum2?
by Kostunin, Dmitriy 01 Jun '26

01 Jun '26

Hi Alex, can we try this beast on Blablador? https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/06/mellum2-goes-open-source-a-fast-model… https://huggingface.co/collections/JetBrains/mellum-2 Sincerely, Dima. --- Dr. Dmitriy Kostunin Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY) Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany Office: 2C36 Phone: +49 337627 7457 Email: dmitriy.kostunin(a)desy.de

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And it's back
by Strube, Alexandre 05 May '26

05 May '26

Mind you, it was only the web services which were affected - your agents never stopped running! Alex

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Blablador is OUT for today :-(
by Strube, Alexandre 05 May '26

05 May '26

Something is going on at our gitlab instance, which holds the container images for our servers. We are aware and working on it. Best, Alex

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Kubernetes upgrade NOW
by Strube, Alexandre 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

Hi, the operators of JSC Cloud need to upgrade the Kubernetes infrastructure - we will have some downtime. If all goes well, you won’t even notice and my dinner won’t be late :-) Not barking for a while, Alex

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"I'm going through changes 🎶🤘"
by Strube, Alexandre 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hello Blabladores, As Ozzy once said, "We shared the years, we shared each day In love, together, we found the way But soon, the world had its evil way My heart was blinded, love went astray I'm going through changes I'm going through changes” We are changing the infrastructure - heavily - for the better. One of the things we are doing now, is to phase out the old Haicluster, so we can update it and use it in a more modern way. For this, the Open-Webui running there has to go. But, worry not! We have a new one already. # What will happen: - The current open-webui instance will be shut down - and with it, it’s data. - The new open-webui will take over transparently. # What you need to do? - IF you want to save your conversations, you go to “Settings -> Data Controls -> Archive All Chats” - Then you go to “Settings -> Archived chats -> Export All archived chats” Keep your conversations saved - once we switch to the new one, you can import them on the same Data Controls. This process can be slow, depending on how big your archive is. If you don’t mind losing your old conversations, you don’t need to do anything other than log in! I will keep you informed of those changes. But if you want to move to the new open-webui instance right away, just open https://staging.blablador.fz-juelich.de/ (without the helmholtz on the name). PLEASE let me know of any issues you might encounter. Let’s bark! Dr. Alexandre Strube a.strube(a)fz-juelich.de Helmholtz AI Jülich Supercomputing Centre Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Jülich, Germany Phone: +49 2461 61-3866 JSC is the coordinator of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) and member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)

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New web ui!
by Strube, Alexandre 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

If you’ve been following Blablador for a while, you might have noticed that our website seemed a bit outdated. While we’ve been working on making our models faster and easier to use, the website got a little neglected. But don’t worry, we’ve got some exciting news! We’ve created a special version of Librechat (https://www.librechat.ai/) that keeps Blablador’s core value alive: complete privacy. Every chat is private and never gets recorded. The only thing we keep track of are unique IP addresses to help us understand how people use the site and to manage things. The database has been completely removed from the source code. When you upload files, they go straight to the models, so there’s no storage on any server. This means some files might be too large for our GPUs to handle. The web search is working, but sometimes you might need to ask nicely—some models might not be too keen on using it. Give it a shot! https://blablador.fz-juelich.de<https://blablador.fz-juelich.de/> P.S. We also have our own anonymous web search engine at https://search.blablador.fz-juelich.de. P.S.2. If you need to keep a conversation going, we have the Open WebUI at https://staging.helmholtz-blablador.fz-juelich.de/—just a heads-up that this one does save files on the server and keeps track of conversations. Have a nice weekend! Alex

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Downtime
by Strube, Alexandre 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

Yes, alias-huge is down, and alias-code is funky. I know. We are fixing it. Sorry, gotta go

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