Author: Thomas Zeiser

Since Wednesday (2025-01-22) evening, some nodes in TinyGPU and TinyFAT seem to have problems accessing NFS directories. This will lead to issues like Jobs mysteriously hanging, or interactive jobs starting but never opening a shell prompt. Update 2025-01-23 09:30: This issue should now be resolv...

The Tier3-Jupyterhub and other services via hub.hpc.fau.de are unavailable. Services via hpc.nhr.fau.de are not impacted. UPDATE 2024-08-15 @ 20:00 - SOVED The server for the Tier3-Jupyterhub and other services via hub.hpc.fau.de had to be reinstalled. All services should be available aga...

In February and March 2024, many HPC accounts from FAU's basic Tier3 HPC service (those accounts usually start with 4 characters, followed by 3 digits, and an "h" at the end unless they are already very old) have been migrated from the IdM portal to the HPC portal (https://portal.hpc.fau.de/). Both ...

Alex and Fritz are currently unavailable due to issued with the parallel file system (/lustre) since Tuesday, February 13, 16 o'clock. Expect also reboots of the login nodes. UPDATE: Batch processing has been resumed on Wednesday morning at around 7 o'clock. Thanks to our system integrator for...

On Friday, February 9th @ 19:30, one of the network file server (NFS) stopped working. As a consequence, many login and compute nodes became unresponsive as a major file system ($WORK for NHR projects) could not be accessed. The NFS server (atuin) has been rebooted and operation seems to be stabl...

Last night (Monday, August 28 @ 23:00) one of the network file server (NFS) stopped working. As a consequence, many login and compute nodes became unresponsive as a major file system ($WORK for NHR projects) cannot be accessed. We are working on resolving the issue. Batch processing on Alex an...

Valued Tier3 HPC users of NHR@FAU, as briefly announced in the HPC Cafe in June, we now started with switching from Woody with Ubuntu 18.04 and Torque to Woody-NG ("Woody Next Generation") with AlmaLinux8 as operating system and Slurm as batch system. Woody-NG uses the same operating system as the...

As already announced in the HPC Cafe in January for summer, we will now reinstall the RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes in TinyGPU with Ubuntu 20.04 (instead of Ubuntu 18.04) and integrate them into the Slurm batch system of the RTX3080/A100 GPU nodes. First RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes have already been reinstalled and moved to Slurm in the past days. The remaining nodes will follow gradually until end of October to allow a smooth transition.

The HPC Campustreffen for Winter 2019/2020 will take place on Thursday, January 16th starting 15 o’clock (c.t.) in the seminar room 2.049 on the 2nd floor  of RRZE, Martensstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen . The HPC Campustreffen is the assembly of all users of FAU's HPC facilities at RRZE. The agenda wi...