HPC

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, October 8, 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: File systems and efficient data handling Speaker: Dr...

Good news for the Faculty of Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and also for us at NHR@FAU: In its latest meeting, the City Council of Erlangen approved a further expansion of the southern university campus, which will also provide more space for NHR@FAU in th...

Each year, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) invites student teams from all over the world to compete in several tough challenges, all related to high performance computing and computing center operation. The competition takes place during the largest conference for high performance computing, t...

Title: Kokkos: Getting lucky by design Speaker: Christian Trott, Co-leader of the Kokkos core team, Sandia National Laboratories Date and time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 4.00 p.m. CEST https://youtu.be/y3HHBl4kV7g Abstract Achieving widespread adoption of a software project involve...

We are pleased to invite to you to the talk "Hopfions in Condensed Matter: Anisotropic Heisenberg Magnets," given by Avadh Saxena from Los Alamos National Lab. It will take place on Wednesday, September 18th, at 2 pm as a hybrid event. On site, you'll find the talk in Hall F of the Phsikum (Staudstr...

Focus topic:  Power and energy consumption of HPC systems Time and date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 4:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Georg Hager, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/53830 Abstract: In this talk we will show how much power and energy is consumed by HPC clusters and how t...

This year's SC24 Conference takes place from November 17 to November 20 in Atlanta, GA, USA. The NHR Alliance together with Women in HPC (WHPC) now offers travel grants each worth up to € 2,500. In order to qualify for the travel grant, applicants must be SC24 participants and affiliated with a Germ...

The Tier3-Jupyterhub and other services via hub.hpc.fau.de are unavailable. Services via hpc.nhr.fau.de are not impacted. UPDATE 2024-08-15 @ 20:00 - SOVED The server for the Tier3-Jupyterhub and other services via hub.hpc.fau.de had to be reinstalled. All services should be available aga...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting Tuesday, August 13 at 12:00 p.m. and lasting until Thursday, August 15 at 12:00 p.m. There will be work on most of the fileservers, thus the cluster frontends and /home/* will be unavailable most of the time. UPD...

The first patch for the newest GROMACS version 2024 was released end of February. Recently, several new GPGPUs were added to the test cluster at NHR@FAU. As we benchmarked our usual set of six simulation systems, we decided to write a follow-up on our GROMACS benchmark posts (Multi-GPU GROMACS Jobs ...