Author: Katja Augustin

The ISC High Performance 2023 conference in Hamburg is over and the NHR@FAU team can look back on a successful participation with presentations, awards, a quiz, and many other activities. Ten days before the actual conference, Georg Hager conducted a half-day online course titled "A Beginner's In...

Topic:  Computer Architecture 101 for Scientists, and what it means for your cluster jobs Speaker: Dr. Georg Hager, Head of Training & Support, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/48566 Abstract: Not knowing how a supercomputer works can literally cost you the better pa...

We are proud to announce that our colleague and PhD student Ayesha Afzal has won the "Global Award of Achievement 2023," presented by WeAreTheCity, a free centralized hub that provides information via networking to women who wish to progress in their careers. The Global Award of Achievement 2023 is ...

Speaker: Dr. Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Title: LLVM in HPC – Enabling Performance Portability, Interoperability, and Novel Features Date and time: Tuesday, May 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/soyNZuMPec0 Abstract: In this talk we...

Speaker: Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Title: The Comedy Club of High-Performance Computing: Low-Rank Matrix Approximation Takes the Stage!  Date and time: Tuesday, May 16, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CEST Slides https://youtu.be/ozNwOHWkj98 Abstr...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, April 25, at 4 p.m. as a hybrid event (in person + Zoom). We invite you to come to RRZE's seminar room 2.049 to have coffee and cake, and as always, there will also be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. The monthly HPC Café is an...

Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Ahmad Tarraf,  Technical University of Darmstadt, Laboratory for Parallel Programming Title: Conquering Noise With Hardware Counters on HPC Systems Date and time: Tuesday, April 18, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/M02vd2IB3Hw Abstract: With ...

On March 15, 2023, NHR@FAU celebrated its two-year anniversary with representatives from politics, science and administration and gave revealing insights into future-oriented interdisciplinary research fields and high-performance computing systems. In several welcome addresses and talks they illustr...

Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Jenke, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Computer Science (High Performance Computing) Title: Asynchronous MPI communication with OpenMP tasks - spawning task dependency graphs across nodes Date and time: Tuesday, April 4, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CEST Slides ...

Topic: The missing Python introduction for scientists Speaker: Tamás Gál, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, ECAP) Abstract: Python became the most popular programming language among scientists but its design and origin have little to do with science, number crunching and high-performa...