HPC

From June 10 to 13, the ISC High Performance conference celebrated its 40th anniversary. The world of HPC met in Hamburg to congratulate—and to advance and promote knowledge exchange, innovation, and collaboration in the field of high-performance computing. ISC's slogan this year was "Connecting the...

The 65th Top500 list was released today at the ISC High Performance 2025 Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The list ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world using the "High Performance LINPACK" benchmark. Helma, NHR@FAU's GPU supercomputer, was recently expanded with another 96 nodes for a...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting on Sunday, June 08 (Pentecost), at 6:00, and lasting at least until the evening of Tuesday, June 10. Main reason for the unusually long downtime is part 1 of the reconfiguration of /home/atuin (which hosts $WORK for N...

Current and future users of BayernKI resources for science can join the first BayernKI Q&A Session! We are pleased to invite you to our first BayernKI Q&A Session, jointly organized by NHR@FAU and LRZ. It takes place on Wednesday, June 4 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. This online session will ...

As a collaboration among the nine NHR Centers of the NHR Alliance, the NHR Graduate School offers a unique program for PhD students. It provides support to talented fellows who specialize in computational science and high-performance computing. Each year, the fellows are offered a course week at a d...

The FAU team for the ASC25 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at Qinghai University in Xining, China, has returned with a lot of valuable experience and exciting impressions. In a successful online preliminary round with roughly 150 teams, the five students were among the 25 best teams and thus quali...

The ISC 2025 in Hamburg is one of the best places in the world to be for learning about high-performance computing and its applications.  Its goal is to spread knowledge, foster innovation, and promote international teamwork in this area through its rich program of keynotes, conference talks, worksh...

The supercomputer "Helma" has been extended in April 2025 with another 384 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Comprising 768 NVIDIA GPUs (half each H100 and H200), it is now the most powerful system at German universities. Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume has officially started the early user access phase on ...

Since about 6:00 p.m. today, the parallel filesystem ($FASTTMP) is partially down. Jobs on Fritz, Alex, and Helma may be affected. We are working on solving the issue and apologize for the incovenience. Update : Lustre is fully available again.  

The Fritz and Helma clusters are down today (May 14) because of urgent maintenance of the water cooling system. We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you updated about the status. Update About half of the Fritz cluster nodes are up and running again. Update The Fritz and Helma clu...