Allgemein

We are excited to announce calls for papers for two workshops organized by our PhD student Ayesha Afzal in collaboration with other NHR centers and worldwide partners: The workshop Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance: Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices (EESP), organized in collabora...

Category: Allgemein

Since Wednesday (2025-01-22) evening, some nodes in TinyGPU and TinyFAT seem to have problems accessing NFS directories. This will lead to issues like Jobs mysteriously hanging, or interactive jobs starting but never opening a shell prompt. Update 2025-01-23 09:30: This issue should now be resolv...

Category: Allgemein, HPC, Systems

When Europe's most powerful supercomputer JUPITER starts operating in May 2025, Germany's best generative AI model will be determined in a competition. Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) opened the “Gauss AI Compute Competition,” which is conducted by the Gauss Center...

Category: Allgemein, HPC

New year, new opportunities to learn: we are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for spring 2025. Unless otherwise indicated, all courses include hands-on components. Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X, Three-day hybrid tutorial at HLRS, Stuttgart, January 21-23, 2025. Registration clos...

Category: Allgemein, HPC, Teaching

Last Monday, the NHR@FAU invited scientists from closely connected research groups, customers, supporters, and long-time companions to an end-of-year meeting to review and celebrate a successful year of 2024 together. We would like to thank everyone for their support and the excellent cooperation...

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Today at about 10:45 a.m., a large-area power outage in Erlangen has brought all our clusters down. All running jobs have been terminated. Some frontends have been switched off manually to lower the load on the uninterruptible power supply infrastructure. We are working to get the systems running...

Category: Allgemein, HPC, Systems

“HPC creates” was the motto of this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC24), which took place in Atlanta, Georgia from November 17 to 22. The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis is the largest and best-known event for HPC experts worldwide, and ...

Category: Allgemein, HPC