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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 German researchers.

News

07MAY 2026
Allgemein
dAIper Hackathon 2026 Drives AI Innovation
The dAIper Hackathon, held from April 24 to 26, 2026, was a collaborative innovation event between FAU and Procter & Gamble (P&G), focused on advancing computer vision and AI through real-world industrial challenges. The event attracted 34 selected participants working alongside 12 team members from both the FAU and P&G sides. The experts from academia […]
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07MAY 2026
Allgemein
Monthly HPC Café: FAU’s services for research data management
The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CEST 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 […]
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02MAY 2026
Systems
OS-Upgrade of Alex from AlmaLinux8 to AlmaLinux9
Throughout the month of May, Alex will be gradually upgraded from AlmaLinux 8 to AlmaLinux 9. In addition to the operating system itself, most development and application software is updated to current versions. Testing the AlmaLinux9 environment To already test the new software environment now, proceed as follows: Planned schedule (as of April 29th) Provided […]
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30APR 2026
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Erlangen-Istanbul Student Exchange: Students Visit NHR@FAU
As part of the annual student exchange program between the Emmy-Noether-Gymnasium in Erlangen and its Turkish partner school, Besiktas Anadolu Lisesi in Istanbul, tenth-grade students visited NHR@FAU. This year’s exchange focused on “AI in the classroom and beyond—opportunities and challenges.” During a previous visit to the partner school in Istanbul in October 2025, students were […]
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30APR 2026
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Unscheduled dowtime: Alex, Fritz, Helma and Woody on 30. April
On the afternoon of April 29, a very bad security problem titled ‘copy.fail’ affecting all Linux Kernels since 2017 became public. We hastily deployed a mitigation on our Ubuntu based systems, but unfortunately, no such mitigation was possible on our AlmaLinux based systems. As a result, we had to block access to our AlmaLinux based […]
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29APR 2026
Systems
Partial outage of Fritz and Helma on Monday, May 4th
Half of Fritz and all H200 nodes of Helma will be unavailable on Monday, May 4th, from 06 to 19 o’clock due to work on the power grid. UPDATE 2026-05-04 @ 17:30: we did not get any update from FAU-Betriebstechnik; batch processing probably cannot be resumed today UPDATE 2026-05-05 @ 09:00: batch processing has been […]
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Events

12
May
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monthly HPC Café: FAU’s services for research data management
Zoom
13
May
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU-General Introduction
Online via Zoom
21
May
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU-Introduction for AI Users
Online via Zoom
09
Jun
2026-06-09, 8:45 AM – 2026-06-12, 1:00 PM
Node-Level Performance Engineering (NLPE, online)
Online via Zoom