HPC

The 19th 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: Upcoming HPC Cafes in April and May • Increase Your AI Performance by up to 130% • NHR Conferenc...

One of our file servers experiences extremely high load since March 27. This is presumably caused by a user application with detrimental file access patterns, bringing the server to is knees. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but imposs...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 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 RRZE to have coffee and cake. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with coffee, cake, and open chat. At ...

We are happy to announce that the NHR@FAU JupyterHub server (accessible via the HPC Portal) now provides options to start sessions for Matlab, R-Studio, and the Whisper transcription web service for our Tier-3 customers (i.e., FAU staff and students, plus the FAU service coverage area). Several j...

There will be a scheduled downtime of our HPC systems: Monday, March 11, from 06:50 to 16:00, affecting ONLY Fritz Wednesday, March 20, from 00:00 to end of the day, affecting ALL our clusters including frontends and fileservers For the March 20 downtime: Reason is general maintenan...

Among 25 other teams out of 300 applications from universities worldwide, the FAU has been selected to compete in the ASC Student Supercomputing Challenge Finals, set for April 9-13, 2024 at Shanghai University. The ASC Student Supercomputing Challenge is one of the three Student Cluster Competit...

Title: Breaking through the barrier of time integration for climate and weather simulations (online) Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Schreiber, Applied Mathematics | High Perf. Scientific Comp. for PDEs | Université Grenoble Alpes | Lab. Jean Kuntzmann | INRIA | France Date and time: Tuesday, ...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 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 RRZE to have coffee and cake. Topic:  NHR Project Applications and the JARDS system Speaker...

In February and March 2024, many HPC acocunts from FAU's basic Tier3 HPC service (those accounts usually start with 4 characters, followed by 3 digits, and an "h" at the end unless they are already very old) have been migrated from the IdM portal to the HPC portal (https://portal.hpc.fau.de/). Both ...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all of NHR@FAUs HPC systems, including frontends and fileservers, on Monday, February 26, starting at 08:30, and lasting the whole day. Reason for the downtime is miscellaneous maintenance, including but not limited to some central fileservers, which is wh...