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Batch processing has been stopped on Alex, Helma, and Woody for detailed system inspection. We'll update this message once we know more details and the expected return to operation. 2026-01-29 @ 07:35 - Batch processing has been resumed. SSH access to your nodes with running jobs is currentl...

Due to a hardware failure, the /anvme partition on Alex requires urgent maintenance on January 27. Therefore, the Alex cluster will be unavailable between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on that day. UPDATE 17:20 - several workspaces have been unaccessible until now; sorry for that

The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will get a major version update. Therefore the instance will be down on coming Monday throughout the day (26.01.).

Don't miss our upcoming Courses 2026:  The NHR@FAU once again offers a wide range of trainings and courses on various topics to start the new year: Parallel Programming... Feb 10-12, Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X, Three-Day, Hybrid at HLRS Feb 24-26, Parallel Programming of High-Perfo...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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. CET with a...

Topic: Domain Decomposition-Based Preconditioners and Neural Networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Heinlein, TU Delft Date and time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: This talk highlights how domain decompositi...

The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will move to a new RAID today. Therefore the instance will be down for maintenance until possibly late evening today (2026-01-14).

Topic: From Picojoules to Gigawatt-hours: Energy-to-Completion and GPU DVFS for LLM Workloads Speaker: Prof. Dr. Holger Fröning (Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI), Heidelberg University) Date and time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) an...

Topic: Scaling and accelerating LLM trainings Speaker: Andrea Pilzer, Ph.D.  (NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Italy) Date and time: Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. CET Slides Abstract: In this talk, we explore scaling laws to understand the rationale behind large-scale training. W...

At last year’s Supercomputing 25 conference, which was held in St. Louis, USA, FAU once again successfully participated in person in the Indy Student Cluster Competition (IndySCC 25) with its student team FAUltier. In preparation, the team had to combine multiple resources from the Jetstream2 Cloud ...