HPC

Title: SCALE—Ahead-of-time compilation of CUDA for HPC platforms Speaker: Chris Kitching, Founder and CTO, Spectral Compute Date and time: Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: We propose a radically different way of thinking about GPU port...

Title: MERIC: Energy Efficiency Data Center Software Suite Speaker: Ondřej Vysocký, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Ostrava, Czech Republic Date and time: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: Data center operators, as well as t...

There will be a scheduled downtime of Fritz from April 23, 7 am till April 24, 3 pm due to maintenance work on the clusters power supply. Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until after the downtime. Update 2026-04-24@13:30: Fritz is up and running again.

Two of the BMBF-funded projects at the NHR@FAU recently concluded with the submission of their closing reports: StroemungsRaum and DaREXA-F. Both activities ran for about three years and have now been successfully completed. In the following, we briefly describe the contributions of NHR@FAU to th4se...

On Tuesday, April 7, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day. Update: The cluster is up and running again.

The 38th Molecular Modelling Workshop (MMWS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was somewhat shorter this year, but this exception allowed for a focus on atomistic simulations. Almost 60 participants from nine different countries gathered at the Chemikum building at FAU upon ...

On Monday, March 23, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day. UPDATE 23.03., 11:45 - Maintenance finished, Helma up and running again

On Thursday, March 12, 2026, the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) welcomed a Member of the German Bundestag: Rebecca Lenhard came to talk with us about the latest advancements in the fields of energy efficiency, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies. ...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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. CET with an ...

The 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance (EESP) will take place on June 26 at the ISC High Performance in Hamburg and is aimed at providing a framework for exchanging practical approaches, ideas, and techniques for energy efficiency when working with artificia...