HPC

We decommissioned our old dialog server cshpc.rrze.fau.de at the end of July. The new server that replaces it, csnhr.nhr.fau.de, has been available for some time now. If you have not switched over to the new server yet, now would be a good time to do so. To this end, you'll mostly have to replace al...

We welcome Jean-Yves Verhaeghe to the group! He is the first student from the EUMaster4HPC program to do his master thesis at NHR@FAU. The HPC European Consortium Leading Education Activities (EUMaster4HPC) aims to develop a new and innovative European Master program focusing on high performance ...

Title: How to rapidly deploy and deliver a highly sustainable national Exascale AI research resource? Speaker: Sadaf Alam, Director of Advanced Computing Strategy, University of Bristol, UK Date and time: Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST Slides: NHR-PerfLab-Alam-July2024.pdf h...

The HPC portal, our platform for HPC account and project management, is currently (at least since 17:00) down. The reason is a problem with the underlying container infrastructure. We are working towards a solution, but it is currently unclear when the portal will be available again. We apologize...

Title: Mixing precisions in numerical algorithms: HPC perspective with modern hardware context Speaker: Piotr Luszczek, MIT Lincoln Lab, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Date and time: Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST Slides https://youtu.be/d_SwG8j9CCs Abstract IEE...

Topic:  GROMACS 2024 usage and performance on modern CPUs and GPUs Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Anna Kahler, NHR@FAU Location: seminar room 2.049 (RRZE, Martensstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen) and Zoom: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69439931483 Slides: Gromacs2024-Usage-and-Per...

Title: Quantum Computing at the DLR Institute of Software Technology—Algorithms and Applications Speaker: Dr.-Ing. Achim Basermann, High-Performance Computing Department, German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute for Software Technology Date and time: Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST...

A big water pipe has burst in the basement of the building where the w2xxx nodes are housed at around 12:30. As a result, the cooling water that used to be in the pipes was forming a pretty little swimming pool in the basement, and the cooling for the w2xxx nodes (i.e. the nodes with 32 Intel IceLak...

The 20th 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 Course Program for Summer/Fall of 2024 •  Upcoming HPC Cafe on "AI in Bavaria"  •  Upcom...

Monthly HPC Café: AI Round Table – State and Future of AI-based Research in Bavaria (June 11, hybrid event) Topic:  AI Round Table – State and Future of AI-based Research in Bavaria Speakers: Prof. Gerhard Wellein, NHR@FAU / Dr. Nicolay Hammer, LRZ / various AI users Slides: BayernKI-NHR@FA...