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The “Hightech Agenda Bayern” has put Bavaria at the forefront of the global AI research. A new und crucial component has been established recently: The BayernKI infrastructure to support the development and research of innovative AI methods using modern, powerful AI systems. This infrastructure ...

Speaker: Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA Date and time: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET (online) Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar   Slides TBA, Video TBA Abstract The Parallel Research Kernels (PRK) were created to be the simple yet still interesting imple...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting this Thursday, 13.02. at 9:00 and expected to last until about 17:00. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and filesystems will be available most...

The next HPC Café will take place on February 11 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee chat, and...

Speaker: Dr. Anton Kozhevnikov, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Date and time: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET (online) Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides Abstract The presentation focuses on the SIRIUS electronic-structure library, hig...

Since 20:10 on January 30, the parallel Lustre file system ($FASTTMP) on the Fritz cluster is unavailable due to repeated server crashes. The issue is being investigated. Update 2025-01-31 17:00: The issue turned out to be a faulty component in the Infiniband network of Fritz, the Lustre servers ...

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 simulation setups, and providing guidance on basi...

We are excited to announce calls for papers for two workshops organized by our PhD student Ayesha Afzal in collaboration with other NHR centers and worldwide partners: The workshop Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices (EESP), organized in collabora...

Since Wednesday (2025-01-22) evening, some nodes in TinyGPU and TinyFAT seem to have problems accessing NFS directories. This will lead to issues like Jobs mysteriously hanging, or interactive jobs starting but never opening a shell prompt. Update 2025-01-23 09:30: This issue should now be resolv...

When Europe's most powerful supercomputer JUPITER starts operating in May 2025, Germany's best generative AI model will be determined in a competition. Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) opened the “Gauss AI Compute Competition,” which is conducted by the Gauss Center...