HPC

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 ...

The 21st NHR Newsletter is now available. In the August issue of our bulletin, we once again talk about the latest interesting events and results at the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Our current topics include: Course program • AI from laptop to supercomputer web seminar...

Since recently, a fast communication link connects the Erlangen Regional Computing Center (RRZE) with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) on the research campus in Garching near Munich. This high-performance network can transmit 100 gigabits per second in each direction and ensures increased rel...