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News

28MAY 2026
Systems
OS-Upgrade of Fritz from AlmaLinux8 to AlmaLinux9
We will be upgrading the operating system on the Fritz cluster from AlmaLinux 8 to AlmaLinux 9. That means you will have to adapt your jobs. Most development and application software provided by us as “modules” is updated to current versions, old versions will usually no longer be available unless there is a good reason […]
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16JUN 2026
HPC
NHR PerfLab Seminar: MPI State of the Union (June 30, hybrid)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München (TUM) Date and time: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) remains the de facto programming model for scalable distributed-memory high-performance computing. This talk provides an overview of the current state of […]
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08JUN 2026
Allgemein
FAUltier achieves top ranking at ASC26 Student Cluster Competition in China
Team FAUltier from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) achieved an outstanding result at the ASC26 Student Cluster Competition, held from May 16–20, 2026, at Wuxi University in Jiangsu Province, China. The team was ranked as the highest-performing international and non-Mainland China team in the competition and secured 12th place overall among the world’s best student high-performance computing […]Team FAUltier from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) achieved an outstanding result at the ASC26 Student Cluster Competition, held from May 16–20, 2026, at Wuxi University in Jiangsu Province, China. The team was ranked as the highest-performing international and non-Mainland China team in the competition and secured 12th place overall among the world’s best student high-performance computing […]
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05JUN 2026
Systems
File system hickups on /home/hpc and /home/vault
On Friday afternoon around 5:15 pm, our /home/hpc and /home/vault file system had a hickup and no more metadata could be written. This led to “No space left on device” error messages for some of our users. Our admins were quickly able to identify the underlying problem: again severe file system abuse by some people, […]
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05JUN 2026
Systems
Scheduled downtime of all systems at NHR@FAU on June 9 + 10
There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAUstarting at 06:30 on Tuesday, June 9.We expect normal operation to resume by the evening of Wednesday, June 10. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and most fileservers will be […]
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03JUN 2026
HPC
ISC 2026: NHR@FAU contributions and activities
From June 22-26, the ISC High Performance 2026 will be held in Hamburg again, and the NHR@FAU will present a diverse program of tutorials, lectures, and interactive sessions focusing on performance engineering, modern HPC architectures, and sustainable procurement strategies. You can find the full program for the upcoming ISC26 on the official website.
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01JUN 2026
HPC
SCC Preparations: Team FAUSION visiting MEGWARE
Team FAUSION is back! After a great run last year, the joint student team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is returning to the big stage to compete in the Student Cluster Competition at ISC High Performance 2026. Taking place from June 23 to 25 in Hamburg, this year’s six-student team […]
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Events

30
Jun
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
NHR PerfLab Seminar: MPI State of the Union (hybrid)
Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom
01
Jul
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Molecular Dynamics Meetup (online)
Online via Zoom
15
Jul
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU-General Introduction
Online via Zoom
16
Jul
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
HPC in a nutshell: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU-Introduction for AI Users
Online via Zoom