HPC

Nora Gourmelon is a Researcher and PhD student with the Pattern Recognition Lab at FAU. She received the “AI Newcomer Award 2023” in April this year. This Award is granted by the German Association of Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik) to young researchers under 30 for innovative develop...

Researchers from German universities can now apply for Large-scale compute time projects on Fritz and Alex. The limits are: 60,000-180,000 GPU-hours on A40 GPUs, 40,000-120,000 GPU-hours on A100 GPUs, and 10-30 Mio core-hours on CPUs in Fritz. The deadline for submitting your comput...

The 14th 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: NHR@FAU and RRZE to Enter a New Era • Upcoming Courses and HPC Cafes • New QE Software Modules •...

The ISC High Performance 2023 conference in Hamburg is over and the NHR@FAU team can look back on a successful participation with presentations, awards, a quiz, and many other activities. Ten days before the actual conference, Georg Hager conducted a half-day online course titled "A Beginner's In...

Topic:  Computer Architecture 101 for Scientists, and what it means for your cluster jobs Speaker: Dr. Georg Hager, Head of Training & Support, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/48566 Abstract: Not knowing how a supercomputer works can literally cost you the better pa...

ISC High Performance 2023, "The Event for High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Quantum Computing," took place from May 21-25 In Hamburg. Part of the vast program is a research poster session, which was particularly competitive this year. We are all the more happy to anno...

Speaker: Dr. Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Title: LLVM in HPC – Enabling Performance Portability, Interoperability, and Novel Features Date and time: Tuesday, May 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/soyNZuMPec0 Abstract: In this talk we...

Speaker: Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Title: The Comedy Club of High-Performance Computing: Low-Rank Matrix Approximation Takes the Stage!  Date and time: Tuesday, May 16, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CEST Slides https://youtu.be/ozNwOHWkj98 Abstr...

We are proud to announce a three-day online course on "Python for HPC," organized by the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). FAU students and scientists are eligible to participate free of charge. The Python programming language has become very popular in scientific computing for vari...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, April 25, at 4 p.m. as a hybrid event (in person + Zoom). We invite you to come to RRZE's seminar room 2.049 to have coffee and cake, and as always, there will also be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. The monthly HPC Café is an...