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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...

Topic: The MAQAO performance analysis and optimization framework Speaker: Prof. William Jalby and Dr. Cédric Valensi, University of Versailles Date and time: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: MAQAO aims at providing...

On March 9, 2026, the NHR|WHPC Chapter will host the special online event "She Computes: Celebrating Career Journeys in WHPC" to celebrate International Women’s Day. It will take place from 12:00–13:15 CET, featuring a keynote by Ayesha Afzal (NHR@FAU), an invited talk by Eleanor Broadway, and six l...

Topic: Human vs. AI - Who Is Better At Sparse Computation? Speaker: Jee Whan Choi, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Date and time: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: We present the reinforcement-learned adapti...

Another success story from NHR@FAU: On February 19, doctoral candidate Ayesha Afzal successfully defended her thesis and thus completed her PhD supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. In her research, Ayesha worked on "A Holistic White-Box Approach to Performance Modeling for Supercomputing." Sh...

The 39th POP webinar takes place in February, provided by the Performance Optimisation and Productivity CoE. Find further information and the registration at the official webpage of the event. Topic: ParaViz3D: MPI Trace Visualization with 3D Video Speaker: Jean-Yves Verhaeghe, NHR@FAU Date...

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...

On February 11, 2026, Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Köstler while serving as a research assistant at NHR@FAU. During his doctoral studies, Rafael developed MD-Bench, a performance-focused pr...

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...