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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

30OCT 2026
General
[Resolved] Unscheduled downtime of Helma-CPU from October 30th
There is an unscheduled Downtime for Helma-CPU, due to an issue with the power grid. We currently expect nominal operation to resume on Monday. 2026-10-30 11:37: Issue with a power grid has been detected, resulting in an unscheduled shutdown of Helma-CPU 2026-10-30 12:00: Technicians have been informed. 2026-11-02 12:30: Technicians have completed work 2026-11-02 14:30: […]
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27OCT 2026
HPC-Cafe
Monthly HPC Café: Exportkontrolle und HPC (November 10, hybrid, in German)
The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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. […]
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25OCT 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Almost 500 API keys for “LLMs as a Service” at NHR@FAU issued
Not much changed since summer and “6-months-of-llms-as-a-service/“, except that we are now approaching 500 issued API keys for “LLMs as a Service” at NHR@FAU. Still with very limited institutional funding—we hope this will change in 2027. Time for some quick statistics … The number of issued keys says nothing about their usage. When we consider […]
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21OCT 2026
HPC
With high performance towards the Windy City: Team SegFAUlt is ready for SC26
As the HPC community is looking forward to the largest conference in its field, our student team, Team SegFAUlt, is ready to take on the ultimate test in Chicago: Representing the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and NHR@FAU, the team is heading to the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at SC26. This year’s competition has a special significance: […]
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20OCT 2026
Tools
DisCostiC release 2.0.0 now models MPI collectives, multi-kernel, and heterogeneous workflows
We are happy to announce version 2.0.0 of DisCostiC (Distributed Cost in Clusters), a cross-architecture, resource-based parallel simulation framework that predicts the performance of real or hypothetical massively parallel MPI programs on current and future heterogeneous systems. This release extends the simulator beyond point-to-point communication to MPI collectives, multi-kernel, and heterogeneous workflows and validates its […]We are happy to announce version 2.0.0 of DisCostiC (Distributed Cost in Clusters), a cross-architecture, resource-based parallel simulation framework that predicts the performance of real or hypothetical massively parallel MPI programs on current and future heterogeneous systems. This release extends the simulator beyond point-to-point communication to MPI collectives, multi-kernel, and heterogeneous workflows and validates its […]
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19OCT 2026
Systems
[mostly solved] 2026-10-19 – All HPC systems at NHR@FAU are offline due to security issues
We need to inform you that access to all NHR@FAU systems had to be taken offline immediately.NHR@FAU follows many other HPC centers who took the same action. The reason for this are 7 potential security issues in the Linux kernel that require urgent investigation and patching. What does this mean for you? We will roll […]
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Events

05
Nov
2026-11-04, 9:00 AM – 2026-11-05, 1:00 PM
Git for Advanced Users
Online via Zoom
09
Nov
2026-11-09, 9:00 AM – 2026-11-10, 1:00 PM
Choosing GPU Programming Approaches
Online via Zoom
10
Nov
2026-11-09, 9:00 AM – 2026-11-10, 1:00 PM
Choosing GPU Programming Approaches
Online via Zoom
10
Nov
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monthly HPC Café: Exportkontrolle und HPC
RRZE, seminar room 2.049 and Zoom; RRZE 2.049 Tagungsraum