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The FAU team for the ASC25 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at Qinghai University in Xining, China, has returned with a lot of valuable experience and exciting impressions. In a successful online preliminary round with roughly 150 teams, the five students were among the 25 best teams and thus quali...

Since 2022, NHR@FAU has its GPU cluster “Alex” in operation, which contains a total of 192 NVIDIA A100 and 304 NVIDIA A40 GPGPUs with eight cards per node. To allow for an easier comparison with the already installed GPUs in the “TinyGPU” cluster (NVIDIA RTX2080Ti, NVIDIA RTX3080, and NVIDIA V100) a...

The ISC 2025 in Hamburg is one of the best places in the world to be for learning about high-performance computing and its applications.  Its goal is to spread knowledge, foster innovation, and promote international teamwork in this area through its rich program of keynotes, conference talks, worksh...

The supercomputer "Helma" has been extended in April 2025 with another 384 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Comprising 768 NVIDIA GPUs (half each H100 and H200), it is now the most powerful system at German universities. Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume has officially started the early user access phase on ...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. 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 an open ...

On April 29 and 30, the SCS Hackathon 2025 took place at FAU, jointly organized by the NHR@FAU and the Sovereign Cloud Stack project. 22 participants from various places, even from the Netherlands and Slovakia, were welcomed to share creative ideas and impressive solutions. For two days, members ...

There will be scheduled downtime of our Tier-3-clusters TinyGPU and TinyFat, including the frontend tinyx and special machines like memoryhog, starting on Wednesday, May 7 at 09:00 and lasting at least the whole day. Reason for the downtime is an OS update. Update 17:00: the frontend tin...

We had to perform an emergency shutdown for the clusters Fritz and Helma today (Wednesday, April 16) at around 13:30, after the cold water supply for these clusters failed at around 13:10. All jobs running at that time were terminated (ungently). Update 16.04. 15:50: First analysis showed that a ...

On Apr 8, 2025, all NHR Graduate School scholars in Erlangen participated in an in-person joint seminar with the local liaison scientists team. The goal was to get to know each other and to foster interaction and collaboration. In his introductory note, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, head of NHR@FAU, emphas...

From March 31 to April 2, 2025, the Chemikum hosted the conference “Molecular Modelling Workshop” (MMWS) in its 37th year. Organized again by the Computer Chemistry Center (CCC) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU), these three days saw presentations of all facets from the still growing fiel...