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23JUN 2026
Allgemein
Unscheduled downtime Helma+Fritz 23.06.
Unscheduled downtime Helma+Fritz 23.06.
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22JUN 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Six months of “LLMs as a Service” at NHR@FAU
In late October 2025, NHR@FAU launched its experimental “LLMs as a Service“—because we have the technical expertise to do so and recognized the urgent need for such a service. There has not been any funding for these activities and, therefore, there are no formal obligations. Nevertheless, we did our best—and the usage figures speak for […]
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16JUN 2026
HPC
NHR PerfLab Seminar: MPI State of the Union (June 30, hybrid)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München (TUM) Date and time: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Slides: https://hpc.fau.de/files/2026/07/2026-06-perflab-stateofmpi.pdf Abstract: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) remains the de facto programming model for scalable distributed-memory high-performance computing. This talk provides an overview of the current state of the art in MPI, with a focus […]Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München (TUM) Date and time: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Slides: https://hpc.fau.de/files/2026/07/2026-06-perflab-stateofmpi.pdf Abstract: The Message Passing Interface (MPI) remains the de facto programming model for scalable distributed-memory high-performance computing. This talk provides an overview of the current state of the art in MPI, with a focus […]
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08JUN 2026
HPC
FAUltier achieves top ranking at ASC26 Student Cluster Competition in China
Team FAUltier from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) achieved an outstanding result at the ASC26 Student Cluster Competition, held from May 16–20, 2026, at Wuxi University in Jiangsu Province, China. The team was ranked as the highest-performing international and non-Mainland China team in the competition and secured 12th place overall among the world’s best student high-performance computing […]Team FAUltier from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) achieved an outstanding result at the ASC26 Student Cluster Competition, held from May 16–20, 2026, at Wuxi University in Jiangsu Province, China. The team was ranked as the highest-performing international and non-Mainland China team in the competition and secured 12th place overall among the world’s best student high-performance computing […]
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05JUN 2026
Systems
File system hickups on /home/hpc and /home/vault
On Friday afternoon around 5:15 pm, our /home/hpc and /home/vault file system had a hickup and no more metadata could be written. This led to “No space left on device” error messages for some of our users. Our admins were quickly able to identify the underlying problem: again severe file system abuse by some people, […]
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05JUN 2026
Systems
Scheduled downtime of all systems at NHR@FAU on June 9 + 10
There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAUstarting at 06:30 on Tuesday, June 9.We expect normal operation to resume by the evening of Wednesday, June 10. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and most fileservers will be […]
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