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Title: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite Speaker: Ondřej Vysocký, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Ostrava, Czech Republic Date and time: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: Data center operators, as well as t...

On April 23rd, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts in Munich launched a massive expansion of AI computing capabilities for science and research in Bavaria. NHR@FAU and Megware signed a contract for the delivery of a new AI supercomputer to FAU. The new system will house more than 1,0...

Title: SCALE—Ahead-of-time compilation of CUDA for HPC platforms Speaker: Chris Kitching, Founder and CTO, Spectral Compute Date and time: Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: We propose a radically different way of thinking about GPU port...

There will be a scheduled downtime of Fritz from April 23, 7 am till April 24, 3 pm due to maintenance work on the clusters power supply. Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until after the downtime. Update 2026-04-24@13:30: Fritz is up and running again.

The first tutorial on constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) simulations successfully took place at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Liaison scientist Marius Trollmann, PhD student at the Computational Biology group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Böckmann, organized the two-day cours...

Two of the BMBF-funded projects at the NHR@FAU recently concluded with the submission of their closing reports: StroemungsRaum and DaREXA-F. Both activities ran for about three years and have now been successfully completed. In the following, we briefly describe the contributions of NHR@FAU to th4se...

On Tuesday, April 7, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day. Update: The cluster is up and running again.

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 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 a...

The 38th Molecular Modelling Workshop (MMWS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was somewhat shorter this year, but this exception allowed for a focus on atomistic simulations. Almost 60 participants from nine different countries gathered at the Chemikum building at FAU upon ...

On Monday, March 23, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day. UPDATE 23.03., 11:45 - Maintenance finished, Helma up and running again