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The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. CEST 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. CEST with an...

From June 10 to 13, the ISC High Performance conference celebrated its 40th anniversary. The world of HPC met in Hamburg to congratulate—and to advance and promote knowledge exchange, innovation, and collaboration in the field of high-performance computing. ISC's slogan this year was "Connecting the...

The 65th Top500 list was released today at the ISC High Performance 2025 Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The list ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world using the "High Performance LINPACK" benchmark. Helma, NHR@FAU's GPU supercomputer, was recently expanded with another 96 nodes for a...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting on Sunday, June 08 (Pentecost), at 6:00, and lasting at least until the evening of Tuesday, June 10. Main reason for the unusually long downtime is part 1 of the reconfiguration of /home/atuin (which hosts $WORK for N...

Current and future users of BayernKI resources for science can join the first BayernKI Q&A Session! We are pleased to invite you to our first BayernKI Q&A Session, jointly organized by NHR@FAU and LRZ. It takes place on Wednesday, June 4 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. This online session will ...

As a collaboration among the nine NHR Centers of the NHR Alliance, the NHR Graduate School offers a unique program for PhD students. It provides support to talented fellows who specialize in computational science and high-performance computing. Each year, the fellows are offered a course week at a d...

Our next Meetup is on Wednesday, June 4. Join the Molecular Dynamics Meetup (MolDynMeet) hosted by NHR@FAU on the first Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Our liaison scientists will be available to assist with optimizing the performance of your MD simulations, troubleshooting simulat...

The FAU team for the ASC25 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at Qinghai University in Xining, China, has returned with a lot of valuable experience and exciting impressions. In a successful online preliminary round with roughly 150 teams, the five students were among the 25 best teams and thus quali...

Since 2022, NHR@FAU has its GPU cluster “Alex” in operation, which contains a total of 192 NVIDIA A100 and 304 NVIDIA A40 GPGPUs with eight cards per node. To allow for an easier comparison with the already installed GPUs in the “TinyGPU” cluster (NVIDIA RTX2080Ti, NVIDIA RTX3080, and NVIDIA V100) a...

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sarah Neuwirth, Full Professor of Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Date and time: Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: As high-performance computing systems evolve to accommodate increasingly hetero...