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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...

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...