Author: Georg Hager

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, January 10, at 4 p.m. as purely online event (via Zoom). The monthly 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 app...

On December 16, Julian Hammer successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Design and Implementation of an Automated Performance Modeling Toolkit for Regular Loop Kernels.” Prof. Dietmar Fey, the head of the PhD committee, announced the good news after Julian had presented the main results of his w...

The eleventh 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: Fritz & Alex climb up in Top500 list • Hybrid NHR PerfLab Seminar: Michael Hartmann on q...

At the SC22 conference last week in Dallas, TX, student teams from all over the world took part in the Student Cluster Competition, a contest that requires operating an HPC system and running a selection of high-performance applications as fast as possible under a strict power constraint. The FAU te...

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...