HPC

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.

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 ...

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...

Speaker: Sunita Chandrasekaran, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware Date and time: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract  With the rapid advancements in the computer architecture space, the migration of l...

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...

Speaker: Johannes Partzsch, TU Dresden Date and time: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides https://youtu.be/8UvnDcL212c Abstract Neuromorphic computing has received interest recently for its potential to counteract the ever-increasing...

Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is now "Intel-ready" The Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is a tool that can analyze assembly code and produce a best-case runtime prediction assuming that the data is in the L1 cache. Its analysis is based on throughput and latency of ...

The next HPC Café will take place on April 8 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 coffee chat, an...

This year's NHR Conference takes place from September 22–25, 2025, in Göttingen. The event's goal remains to bring together HPC users focusing on different topics each year, this time on AI in social sciences and life sciences, as well as the management and storage of data. Just as last year, the...