Welcome to the
Erlangen National
High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

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

News

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.
Read more about NHR testcluster unavailable – SOLVED
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 […]
Read more about [cancelled] Emergency downtime of Helma
20AUG 2026
Tools
New LIKWID release 5.5.2
We are happy to announce a new bugfix release for LIKWID. There are fixes for AMD Zen systems and the handling of SLURM in likwid-mpirun. Feel free to try it out: The new version can be downloaded from our FTP and on GitHub. It will be available soon in SPACK. In order to get in […]
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Events

11
Sep
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Fundamentals of Deep Learning
Online via Zoom
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

Welcome to theErlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

News

PPAM 2026: Congratulations to the Best Paper Award winners!

One year of BayernKI: A Retrospective

NHR testcluster unavailable – SOLVED

[resolved] Scheduled downtime of all HPC systems in the week from August 31 – continued downtime for Helma

[cancelled] Emergency downtime of Helma

New LIKWID release 5.5.2

Events

Welcome to the
Erlangen National
High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)