Author: Georg Hager

One of our file servers experiences extremely high load since March 27. This is presumably caused by a user application with detrimental file access patterns, bringing the server to is knees. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but imposs...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. 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 RRZE to have coffee and cake. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with coffee, cake, and open chat. At ...

We are happy to announce that the NHR@FAU JupyterHub server (accessible via the HPC Portal) now provides options to start sessions for Matlab, R-Studio, and the Whisper transcription web service for our Tier-3 customers (i.e., FAU staff and students, plus the FAU service coverage area). Several j...

As of February 21, 2024, our system documentation, including cluster docs, application tips and tricks, software and tools, batch system, FAQs, etc., have moved from our main WordPress page to a new home: https://doc.nhr.fau.de/. We took the opportunity to reorganize the material and remove moldy ol...

Christie Alappat, Georg Hager, and Gerhard Wellein from NHR@FAU organize a two-part minisymposium at SIAM Parallel Processing 2024 in Baltimore, MD (full conference program available), on March 7, 2024. It is titled “Advancements in Sparse Linear Algebra: Hardware-Aware Algorithms and Optimization T...

Every two years, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAG/SC) awards a best paper prize to the authors of the most outstanding paper in the field of parallel scientific and engineering computing published in English in a peer-reviewed journal. ...

Between January 18 at about 15:00 and January 19 at about 09:45, some users might have experienced difficulties with job execution on all clusters because they were wrongly reported as having exceeded their quotas on the /home/hpc and/or /home/vault file systems. For /home/hpc, that problem was alre...

We are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for Spring 2024. Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++. Full-day online course, February 29. The course covers fundamental tools and techniques for GPU-accelerated C/C++ applications with CUDA. The course and the hands-on exer...

On December 14, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, Director of the NHR@FAU, and Mr. André Singer of MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH from Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf signed the contract for the installation of two new HPC clusters worth about 10 million €. MEGWARE prevailed against several competitors in the E...

The 17th NHR@FAU Newsletter is available. This publication summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. These are the current topics: Upcoming PerfLab Seminar Talks and HPC Cafes  •  SC23 Conference  •  School Workshop on AI Suppo...