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This year's Supercomputing Conference (SC23) took place in Denver, Colorado from November 12 to 17. As the largest and most important international event for HPC, it offered once again an extensive and diverse technical and scientific program as well as numerous exchange opportunities about innovati...

Topic:  VASP Benchmarks Speaker: Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/webplayer/id/242749 Abstract:  Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a software package for performing Kohn-Sham density functional calculations as well as other ab-initio quantum-mechani...

On October 21, the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” (Long Night of Science) again provided thrilling insights into the activities of universities and companies in the greater Nuremberg area. For the eleventh time, the HPC team was part of an event that offers a huge spectrum of opportunities for rea...

Title: A review of processor advances over the past thirty years - an outsider's perspective (hybrid) Speaker: Dr. Jan Eitzinger, NHR@FAU Date and time: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/oXACVA1O_2U?si=Xuce0fOY7BHe4RWD Abstract: This talk provides ...

Topic:  GPU Top Trumps! Speaker: Dominik Ernst, NHR@FAU Abstract:  What's so special about those NVIDIA H100 GPUs that are (almost) as valuable as gold? This month's HPC Cafe shines a light on the capabilities and differences of all the different GPUs currently sold for HPC. We try t...

The 16th NHR@FAU Newsletter is available. This publication summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. These are the current topics: Online "Node-Level Performance Engineering" Tutorial at LRZ  •  Upcoming Talks in the NHR PerfLa...

From September 18–20, 2023, the first NHR conference took place on site at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). Almost 200 domain scientists, HPC consultants, decision makers, and administrative staff interacted at a vibrant event, which not only served to reflect the current state of the NHR effort but...

Our popular “Node-Level Performance Engineering” full-day tutorial has been accepted again (now the twelfth time in a row!) for presentation at SC23, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber, and Gerhard Wellein will te...

This course introduces the molecular dynamics engine GROMACS, including fundamental commands and applications. Over three days (October 10-12, 2023, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m), the participants will learn how to prepare and run simulations of biomolecular systems (including, e.g., membranes and proteins) at a...

Title: The Linear Algebra Mapping Problem and how programming languages solve it Speaker: Prof. Paolo Bientinesi, Ph.D., Umeå University, Sweden Date and time: Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST Slides https://youtu.be/PDAcuw1oQNs Abstract: The computational workflows...