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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

05OCT 2026
HPC-Cafe
Monthly HPC Café: Software development using AI coding agents
The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, October 13, 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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05OCT 2026
Systems
[resolved] Problems with Homedirectories
There are currently problems with the homedirectories under /home/hpc and /home/vault. Attempts to write there may fail with error messages like “no space left on device”, “disk quota exceeded” or even “permission denied”. This can also happen on attempts to delete files. Simply reading files is not affected. We’re on it. Update 1: These should […]
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05OCT 2026
HPC
Computer Science Days 2026: NHR@FAU Welcomes Curious Teachers
On September 30 and October 1 the Bavarian Computer Science Days took place at the FAU. Organized by the Chair of Computer Science Education with the Fachgruppe Bayerische Informatiklehrkräfte (BIL), the event welcomed teachers from a wide variety of school types as well as students in the field for a diverse program of talks, workshops, […]
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29SEP 2026
NHR-PerfLab-Seminar
NHR PerfLab Seminar: Building digital photonic computing (October 6, hybrid)
Speaker: Leonardo Del Bino, Co-founder and CTO Akhetonics Date and time: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Location: (hybrid): RRZE, Martensstr. 1, Seminar Room 2.049 and Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: When considering optical computing, many people might think about the analog vector matrix multiplication, neuromorphic neural networks, reservoir computing or even quantum computing. At Akhetonics we have a different […]Speaker: Leonardo Del Bino, Co-founder and CTO Akhetonics Date and time: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Location: (hybrid): RRZE, Martensstr. 1, Seminar Room 2.049 and Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: When considering optical computing, many people might think about the analog vector matrix multiplication, neuromorphic neural networks, reservoir computing or even quantum computing. At Akhetonics we have a different […]
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28SEP 2026
General
[resolved] Unscheduled downtime of Helma-CPU from September 28
There is an unscheduled Downtime for Helma-CPU,due to an issue with the power grid. 2026-09-28 9:15: We do not have information about the duration of this issue. 2026-09-30 15:00: Power to Helma-CPU has been restored. 2026-09-30 19:00: Batch processing on Helma-CPU has been resumed (though currently still at reduced capacity), so we’ll mark this as […]
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25SEP 2026
General
[resolved] Maintenance downtime of Helma and Fritz
Due to maintenance work on the electrical infrastructure of the Kältezentrale, the Fritz and the Helma cluster will be down on We expect normal operation to resume by the evening. 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 […]
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Events

09
Oct
2026-10-07, 9:00 AM – 2026-10-09, 5:00 PM
Modern C++ Software Design
Online via Zoom
13
Oct
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monthly HPC Café: Software development using AI coding agents
RRZE, Martensstr. 1, Seminar Room 2.049 and Zoom
14
Oct
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU—General Introduction
Online via Zoom
15
Oct
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU—Introduction for AI Users
Online via Zoom