Author: Georg Hager

Today at about 10:45 a.m., a large-area power outage in Erlangen has brought all our clusters down. All running jobs have been terminated. Some frontends have been switched off manually to lower the load on the uninterruptible power supply infrastructure. We are working to get the systems running...

The 64th Top500 list was released today at the SC24 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world according to the "High Performance LINPACK" benchmark, which solves a large, dense system of linear equations. We are thrilled to announce that the first part o...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, October 8, 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. Topic: File systems and efficient data handling Speaker: Dr...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting Tuesday, August 13 at 12:00 p.m. and lasting until Thursday, August 15 at 12:00 p.m. There will be work on most of the fileservers, thus the cluster frontends and /home/* will be unavailable most of the time. UPD...

We decommissioned our old dialog server cshpc.rrze.fau.de at the end of July. The new server that replaces it, csnhr.nhr.fau.de, has been available for some time now. If you have not switched over to the new server yet, now would be a good time to do so. To this end, you'll mostly have to replace al...

We welcome Jean-Yves Verhaeghe to the group! He is the first student from the EUMaster4HPC program to do his master thesis at NHR@FAU. The HPC European Consortium Leading Education Activities (EUMaster4HPC) aims to develop a new and innovative European Master program focusing on high performance ...

Title: How to rapidly deploy and deliver a highly sustainable national Exascale AI research resource? Speaker: Sadaf Alam, Director of Advanced Computing Strategy, University of Bristol, UK Date and time: Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST Slides: NHR-PerfLab-Alam-July2024.pdf h...

The HPC portal, our platform for HPC account and project management, is currently (at least since 17:00) down. The reason is a problem with the underlying container infrastructure. We are working towards a solution, but it is currently unclear when the portal will be available again. We apologize...

The 20th 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: NHR@FAU Course Program for Summer/Fall of 2024 •  Upcoming HPC Cafe on "AI in Bavaria"  •  Upcom...

We are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for summer and fall of 2024. Unless otherwise indicated, all courses include hands-on components. Introduction to the LIKWID Tool Suite. Full-day online course, July 23. The LIKWID tool suite is a collection of performance tools for topology ...