Author: Katja Augustin

On Thursday, March 12, 2026, the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) welcomed a Member of the German Bundestag: Rebecca Lenhard came to talk with us about the latest advancements in the fields of energy efficiency, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies. ...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 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 an ...

On February 11, 2026, Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Köstler while serving as a research assistant at NHR@FAU. During his doctoral studies, Rafael developed MD-Bench, a performance-focused pr...

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 https://youtu.be/fDacQIqwrzs Slides Abstract: This talk highlights how domain decomposition methods—rooted ...

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) Slides https://youtu.be/--ooPY-fDKw Abstract: Modern LLM workloads span energy scales from pi...

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 https://youtu.be/N0tzRQPtWNk 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...