The BSI is working on a new draft of the C5 catalogue and has asked the community to comment on it here C5:2025 – the future of C5 as a community draft.

5¢ for C5 as a form

My 5¢ comment is in this form

What’s missing?

My main additions, besides many details:

• Anyone who wants to offer digitally sovereign services needs digitally sovereign data centres. However, it is not enough for them to be located in Germany; the operators and service providers must also not be subject to foreign jurisdiction.

While half the German cabinet is travelling to Jülich, Germany, to inaugurate a new supercomputer Jupiter, which ranks fourth on the Exascale Top 500 list with a power consumption of 17MW, the hyperscalers are getting down to business when it comes to monopoly policy. In Jülich, 24,000 GH200 Grace Hopper superchips from NVIDIA are being installed, naturally also for AI and LLMs. All these ideas make sense, but one of the most nonsensical applications of graphics cards and their derivatives is AI. Weather forecasts, CO₂-free power supply and energy savings in air traffic are already areas of research that sound applicable and whose significance is obvious. Astrophysics and quark-gluon plasmas are interesting, but I’m more interested in whether I can get through the winter with solar energy, battery storage and a heat pump.

Während in Deutschland das halbe Kabinett anreist, und sich freut, in Jülich einen neuen Super Computer Jupiter einzuweihen, der mit einer Verbrauchsleistung von 17MW auf Platz 4 der Exascale Top 500 Liste steht , machen die Hyperscaler im Thema Monopolpolitik Nägel mit Köpfen.

In Jülich werden digital souverän 24.000 GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips von NVIDIA verbaut, natürlich auch für KI und LLMs. Alle diese Ideen sind sinnvoll, aber eine der unsinnigsten Anwendungen von Grafikkarten und ihren Abkömmlingen ist KI. Wettervorhersagen, CO₂ freie Stromversorgung und Energieeinsparungen beim Luftverkehr ist schon Forschung, die anwendbar klingt und deren Bedeutung einleuchtet. Astrophysik und Quark-Gluon Plasmen sind interessant, aber mich interessiert gerade mehr, ob ich mit Solarenergie, Batteriespeicher und Wärmepumpe gut über den Winter komme.

Das Bild1 zeigt eine Farm von drei Amazon Rechenzentren in der Region US West 2 in Boardman, Oregon.

Topics: Recommendations according BSI Grundschutz Container APP 1.6, Kubernetes SYS 4.4 and Supplychain Security according DevSecOps

German administration cloud

Timeframe: September 2023 – June 2024

Role Consulting Cloud, DVC, Security

Topics

• Work on version 3.0 of the German Administrative Cloud – Target Architecture Framework
• Recommendations for the IT Planning Council
  • Open Source
  • AI
  • Cloud
    • Kubernetes
    • Public clouds
  • Networks
    • Federated Networks
    • Mutual TLS

Open Desk

Timeframe September 2022- – April 2024