HPC

Since June 2020, the Top500 list is led by the supercomputer Fugaku, which comprises over 7.5 million Fujitsu A64FX cores. Besides their raw computational power, the cores are equipped with features that support parallel execution on the systems: hardware barrier, sector cache (cache partitioning), ...

Speaker:  Dr. John D. McCalpin (Texas Advanced Computing Center), also known as "Dr. Bandwidth," of STREAM fame Title: Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems - 2021 Update Date & time: Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/jkwD48m...

FAU is participating in the first European Master's degree programme in high performance computing A European consortium including FAU aims to develop a pan-European pilot Master’s degree programme for high performance computing (HPC). As of winter semester 2022/23, the partners hope to offer cours...

Speakers: Daniel Jünger and Prof. Bertil Schmidt (University of Mainz) Title: General-purpose GPU Hashing Data Structures and their Application in Accelerated Genomics Date and time: Tuesday, November 23, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/dcRCS74U4EQ Abstract: A broad variety...

Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Soysal (Karlsruhe Institute of technology) Title: On-demand file systems: production use, use cases and lessons learned Date and time: Tuesday, November 2, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/VTbda18wOwU Abstract: On many HPC systems, the parallel file system ...

The fourth NHR@FAU Newsletter is now available. The newsletter is a publication that summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Beyond events, every newsletter highlights special or noteworthy achievements by NHR scientists and an FAQ...

As already announced in the HPC Cafe in January for summer, we will now reinstall the RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes in TinyGPU with Ubuntu 20.04 (instead of Ubuntu 18.04) and integrate them into the Slurm batch system of the RTX3080/A100 GPU nodes. First RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes have already been reinstalled and moved to Slurm in the past days. The remaining nodes will follow gradually until end of October to allow a smooth transition.

Speaker: Dr. Tobias Kenter (University of Paderborn) Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow-Water Simulations on FPGAs Date and time: Tuesday, October 19, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Abstract: Shallow water simulations with the discontinuous Galerkin method are an important tool for flood predictions, ...

With the beginning of 2021, eight National High Performance Computing (NHR) Centers have been established throughout Germany. The three centers in Paderborn (PC2), Erlangen (NHR@FAU), and Berlin (NHR@ZIB) have a joint focus on atomistic simulations and as such form the virtual Atomistic Simulation C...

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Kühne (University of Paderborn) Title: Towards exascale simulations using the submatrix method and approximate computing Date and time: Tuesday, October 5, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/llDEHirYZPQ Abstract: We present the submatrix method and a novel ...