Author: Georg Hager

Last week at the Supercomputing (SC22) Conference in Dallas, Texas, the updated list of the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world was released. The "Top500" is published twice a year at the leading conferences in the field: SC in the USA and ISC High Performance in Germany. Systems are ranked acco...

We are happy to announce a "Minisymposium on Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Particulate Flows," which is organized by the Chair for System Simulation at FAU. It takes place as a hybrid event - remote participants can attend online. Date and Time: Friday, October 28, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Plac...

Our popular "Node-Level Performance Engineering" full-day tutorial has been accepted again (now the eleventh time in a row!) for presentation at SC22, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. We teach the basics of node-level computer architectur...

At JuliaCon 2022 last week, Carsten Bauer from PC2 Paderborn gave a great talk on using hardware performance counters in Julia programs with LIKWID.jl, the Julia wrapper for the LIKWID library. With LIKWID.jl, you can leverage the full power of the LIKWID library, first and foremost counting perform...

The next HPC Café takes place as a hybrid event (in person + Zoom) on Tuesday, July 12, at 4 p.m. The HPC Café is an opportunity to get to know each other and to stay up to speed with current developments at NHR@FAU. After a general Q&A phase, the focus will be put on advanced or application-...

The NHR Alliance offers PhD scholarships at each of its nine centers. A scholarship runs for three years. If you have a master's degree in computer science, mathematics, the natural or engineering sciences, or an equivalent degree and are interested in High Performance Computing, this fellowship pro...

Computing Crossroads is a research initiative with the intention of providing a computing perspective across a wide variety of fields, and conversely, the huge amount of value brought to this field by those coming from areas traditionally considered unrelated. The organization aims to expose the div...

The newly established NHR Graduate School of the NHR Alliance (NHR-Verein e.V.) offers PhD scholarships to applicants from Germany, Europe, and all over the world. From June 13-17, the first batch of eight newly minted PhD students took part in the first NHR Graduate School course week at the Zuse I...

On May 21, the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" (Long Night of Science) provided thrilling insights into universities and companies in the greater Nuremberg area. For the tenth time, the HPC team was part of an event that offers a huge spectrum of opportunities for reaching out to the general public...

Speaker: Ayesha Afzal, NHR@FAU Title: The Role of Idle Waves in Modeling and Optimization of Parallel Programs Date and time: Tuesday, April 26, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/kUhXtBWi1as Abstract: A wide spectrum of disturbances emerging from the system and the applications pos...