HPC

The next HPC Café will take place on March 11 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. with an open coffee chat, and at...

Speaker: Katherine Rasmussen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Date and time: Monday, March 10, 2025, 4:00 p.m. CET (online) - note the change of date & time Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides and Video TBA Abstract Fortran has been used in scientific...

The 37th Molecular Modeling Workshop (MMWS2025), taking place in Erlangen from March 31st to April 2nd, 2025, offers an ideal platform for researchers, postdocs, and PhD students to showcase their findings to the molecular modeling community. The goal of the workshop is to provide young scientists t...

The “Hightech Agenda Bayern” has put Bavaria at the forefront of the global AI research. A new und crucial component has been established recently: The BayernKI infrastructure to support the development and research of innovative AI methods using modern, powerful AI systems. This infrastructure ...

Speaker: Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA Date and time: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET (online) Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides https://youtu.be/HTbjM5GDIRM Abstract The Parallel Research Kernels (PRK) were created to be the simple yet still interestin...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting this Thursday, 13.02. at 9:00 and expected to last until about 17:00. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and filesystems will be available most...

The next HPC Café will take place on February 11 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. with an open coffee chat, and...

Speaker: Dr. Anton Kozhevnikov, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) Date and time: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET (online) Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides https://youtu.be/UFkUOXy1kKY Abstract The presentation focuses on the SIRIUS e...

Since 20:10 on January 30, the parallel Lustre file system ($FASTTMP) on the Fritz cluster is unavailable due to repeated server crashes. The issue is being investigated. Update 2025-01-31 17:00: The issue turned out to be a faulty component in the Infiniband network of Fritz, the Lustre servers ...

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...