Author: Katja Augustin

On February 4, 2026, Christie Louis Alappat successfully defended his PhD thesis. He worked for several years in our team and completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. His research interests included performance engineering, sparse matrix algorithms, graph al...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 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. CET with a...

Topic: Domain Decomposition-Based Preconditioners and Neural Networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Heinlein, TU Delft Date and time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Slides Abstract: This talk highlights how domain d...

Topic: From Picojoules to Gigawatt-hours: Energy-to-Completion and GPU DVFS for LLM Workloads Speaker: Prof. Dr. Holger Fröning (Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI), Heidelberg University) Date and time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) an...

Topic: Scaling and accelerating LLM trainings Speaker: Andrea Pilzer, Ph.D.  (NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Italy) Slides https://youtu.be/f-73opEazA8 Abstract: In this talk, we explore scaling laws to understand the rationale behind large-scale training. We discuss how to apply parallel...

Welcome to the first HPC Café of 2026 on January 13. This time we're starting with a presentation in German on the topic of "Exportkontrolle & HPC"---perfect for anyone who is new to the field or works with it regularly. This is also a topic that concerns professors, group leaders, and PIs since...

Topic: Using Visual Studio Code Efficiently Speaker: Chang Liu, NHR@FAU Slides Abstract: Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a powerful IDE, and thanks to its rich ecosystem of community-developed extensions, it has become increasingly popular among HPC users. In this HPC Café, we’ll share prac...

This year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC25), the largest and best-known event for High-Performance Computing (HPC) worldwide, took place from November 16–21 in St. Louis, Missouri. Under the motto “HPC Ignites,” the global HPC community once again gathered for a week of groundbreaking research, tec...

Topic: Why matrix processing? Speaker: Dr. José Moreira, IBM Date and time: Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/mTUj4nufNX8 Abstract: It took vector processing approximately 30 years to move from the domain of supercomputers to mainstream computing. ...

The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25) is set to take place this year in St. Louis, Missouri, from November 16–21, 2025. Once again, the global HPC community will gather for a week of groundbreaking research, technical innovation, and co...