HPC

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 Abstract The presentation focuses on the SIRIUS electronic-structure library, highlighting it...

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...

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...

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde, Chair for System Simulation (LSS), FAU Date and time: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET Location: RRZE (Martensstr. 1), seminar room 2.049 and online via Zoom. Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract This talk concerns the eff...

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...

2025 hast just begun, and we already have the next good news for this year: A young and eager team from the FAU in cooperation with the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will once again be able to take part in the Student Cluster Competition of the ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg...

The first HPC Café in 2025 will take place on January 14, 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 ...

Title: Efficient and robust hardware for neural networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Grace Li Zhang, Technische Universität Darmstadt Date and time: Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/WUKlslQUk90 Abstract The last decade has witnessed significant breakthroughs ...