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Erlangen National
High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

We offer resources, services, and training in the fields of HPC and AI/ML to researchers at German universities.

News

14SEP 2026
HPC-Cafe
Monthly HPC Café: C++ on tranquilizers— writing simpler and more reliable code for HPC
The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, as a hybrid event. As always, there will be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. We invite you to come to NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. CEST with an open coffee […]
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08SEP 2026
HPC
PPAM 2026: Congratulations to the Best Paper Award winners!
The 16th PPAM 2026 conference (Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics) in Poznań, Poland, took place from August 30 to September 2, organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Częstochowa University of Technology. The conference featured workshops, tutorials, and talks around parallel and distributed processing as well as a Best Paper Award. We are […]
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07SEP 2026
BayernKI
One year of BayernKI: A Retrospective
In 2025, the BayernKI for Science initiative was launched as a central infrastructure that provides computing resources for research projects. Additionally, researchers were able to take advantage of numerous training opportunities at the two responsible centers, LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) and NHR@FAU. One year has since passed, but how has the service been received? It’s […]
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04SEP 2026
Systems
NHR testcluster unavailable – SOLVED
Due to security issues in a central software component, NHR@FAU’s testcluster is currently unavailable. There is no ETA for the fix up to now. 2026-09-08: All testcluster nodes are back online.
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21AUG 2026
Systems
[resolved] Scheduled downtime of all HPC systems in the week from August 31 – continued downtime for Helma
There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting on Monday, August 31 at 6:00, and in parts lasting until Friday, September 04. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and most fileservers will be available through most […]
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20AUG 2026
Systems
[cancelled] Emergency downtime of Helma
Due to emergency maintenance work on the cooling infrastructure of Helma-GPU, the cluster will be down from We expect normal operation to resume by the evening of Friday 28. As usual, jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Most frontends and fileservers will be available through […]
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Events

17
Sep
2026-09-17, 9:00 AM – 2026-09-18, 4:00 PM
C++ for Beginners (Part 1)
Online via Zoom
18
Sep
2026-09-17, 9:00 AM – 2026-09-18, 4:00 PM
C++ for Beginners (Part 1)
Online via Zoom
22
Sep
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monthly HPC Café: C++ on tranquilizers–writing simpler and more reliable code for HPC
RRZE, Martensstr. 1, Seminar Room 2.049 and Zoom
24
Sep
2026-09-24, 9:00 AM – 2026-09-25, 4:00 PM
C++ for Beginners (Part 2)
Online via Zoom