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As announced in our February 2026 newsletter, our reliable workhorse cluster "Meggie," inaugurated in 2017, has finally gone out of service on February 15. Meggie was the default Tier-3 compute resource for countless HPC customers of RRZE and later NHR@FAU. After nine years of operation, hardware fa...

The 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance (EESP) will take place on June 26 at the ISC High Performance in Hamburg and is aimed at providing a framework for exchanging practical approaches, ideas, and techniques for energy efficiency when working with artificia...

On February 4, 2026, Christie Louis Alappat successfully defended his PhD thesis. He worked for several years in our team and completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. His research interests included performance engineering, sparse matrix algorithms, graph al...

On January 20, the AI Innovation Sprint took place at ZOLLHOF as a compact, high-intensity hackathon. The winning team included FAU students and working students from NHR@FAU, BMW, and Siemens Healthineers, combining academic and industry perspectives. The Challenge All teams worked on the same ch...

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 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).

  All nodes of the work partition in TinyFAT and major parts of the A100 / RTX3080 nodes in TinyGPU are currently unavailable due to network issues. Do not expect a fix during the closure of the University. Update 07.01.2026 18:00: Reason for the problems is a switch that seems to be...