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Title: Mixed-Precision Computing: An Overview Speaker: Theo Mary, PhD, Sorbonne University Date and time: Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Zoom link: https://fau.zoom.us/j/68603607738 Abstract: Modern hardware supports an increasingly wide range of arithmetics, notably low...

This year's Supercomputing Conference (SC23) took place in Denver, Colorado from November 12 to 17. As the largest and most important international event for HPC, it offered once again an extensive and diverse technical and scientific program as well as numerous exchange opportunities about innovati...

We are happy to release version 5.3.0 of LIKWID, the tools suite for performance oriented programmers. Thanks to all the contributors, especially HPE for the AMD ROCm backend. You can download it from our FTP server or the GitHub repository. Changelog for 5.3.0: - Support for Intel SapphireRa...

Topic:  VASP Benchmarks Speakers: Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, NHR@FAU Slides: vasp-benchmarks-2023.pdf Abstract:  Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a software package for performing Kohn-Sham density functional calculations as well as other ab-initio quantum-mechanical methods...

On October 21, the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” (Long Night of Science) again provided thrilling insights into the activities of universities and companies in the greater Nuremberg area. For the eleventh time, the HPC team was part of an event that offers a huge spectrum of opportunities for rea...

Title: A review of processor advances over the past thirty years - an outsider's perspective (hybrid) Speaker: Dr. Jan Eitzinger, NHR@FAU Date and time: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/oXACVA1O_2U?si=Xuce0fOY7BHe4RWD Abstract: This talk provides ...

Topic:  GPU Top Trumps! Speaker: Dominik Ernst, NHR@FAU Abstract:  What's so special about those NVIDIA H100 GPUs that are (almost) as valuable as gold? This month's HPC Cafe shines a light on the capabilities and differences of all the different GPUs currently sold for HPC. We try t...

Title: Facing Challenges in Computational Fluid Mechanics with Lattice Boltzmann Methods, OpenLB and High Performance Computers (hybrid event) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mathias J. Krause, Lattice Boltzmann Research Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Date and time: Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 2...

The 16th 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: Online "Node-Level Performance Engineering" Tutorial at LRZ  •  Upcoming Talks in the NHR PerfLa...

From September 18–20, 2023, the first NHR conference took place on site at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). Almost 200 domain scientists, HPC consultants, decision makers, and administrative staff interacted at a vibrant event, which not only served to reflect the current state of the NHR effort but...