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

30APR 2026
Allgemein
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
Allgemein
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.
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29APR 2026
Allgemein
Molecular Dynamics Meetup (MolDyn Meet)
Our next Meetup is on Wednesday, May 6. Join the Molecular Dynamics Meetup (MolDynMeet) hosted by NHR@FAU on the first Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Our liaison scientists will be available to assist with optimizing the performance of your MD simulations, troubleshooting simulation setups, and providing guidance on basic analysis […]
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24APR 2026
Allgemein
NHR PerfLab Seminar: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite (online)
Title: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite Speaker: Ondřej Vysocký, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Ostrava, Czech Republic Date and time: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: Data center operators, as well as their users, face pressure to constantly evaluate and optimize energy efficiency and the sustainability of computation. The […]Title: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite Speaker: Ondřej Vysocký, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Ostrava, Czech Republic Date and time: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: Data center operators, as well as their users, face pressure to constantly evaluate and optimize energy efficiency and the sustainability of computation. The […]
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23APR 2026
Allgemein
Massive expansion of computing power for AI research
On April 23rd, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts in Munich launched a massive expansion of AI computing capabilities for science and research in Bavaria. NHR@FAU and Megware signed a contract for the delivery of a new AI supercomputer to FAU. The new system will house more than 1,000 NVIDIA B200 chips […]
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Events

04
May
2026-05-04, 9:00 AM – 2026-05-06, 3:00 PM
Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenMP (online)
Online via Zoom
05
May
2026-05-04, 9:00 AM – 2026-05-06, 3:00 PM
Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenMP (online)
Online via Zoom
06
May
2026-05-04, 9:00 AM – 2026-05-06, 3:00 PM
Introduction to Parallel Programming with OpenMP (online)
Online via Zoom
06
May
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Molecular Dynamics Meetup (online)
Online via Zoom

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

News

Erlangen-Istanbul Student Exchange: Students Visit NHR@FAU

Unscheduled dowtime: Alex, Fritz, Helma and Woody on 30. April

Partial outage of Fritz and Helma on Monday, May 4th

Molecular Dynamics Meetup (MolDyn Meet)

NHR PerfLab Seminar: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite (online)

Massive expansion of computing power for AI research

Events

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