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Since 20:10 on January 30, the parallel Lustre file system ($FASTTMP) on the Fritz cluster is unavailable due to repeated server crashes. The issue is being investigated. Update 2025-01-31 17:00: The issue turned out to be a faulty component in the Infiniband network of Fritz, the Lustre servers ...

Since Wednesday (2025-01-22) evening, some nodes in TinyGPU and TinyFAT seem to have problems accessing NFS directories. This will lead to issues like Jobs mysteriously hanging, or interactive jobs starting but never opening a shell prompt. Update 2025-01-23 09:30: This issue should now be resolv...

When Europe's most powerful supercomputer JUPITER starts operating in May 2025, Germany's best generative AI model will be determined in a competition. Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) opened the “Gauss AI Compute Competition,” which is conducted by the Gauss Center...

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde, Chair for System Simulation (LSS), FAU Date and time: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET Location: RRZE (Martensstr. 1), seminar room 2.049 and online via Zoom. Access via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides https://youtu.be/h735oXbIIQ4...

New year, new opportunities to learn: we are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for spring 2025. Unless otherwise indicated, all courses include hands-on components. Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X, Three-day hybrid tutorial at HLRS, Stuttgart, January 21-23, 2025. Registration clos...

2025 hast just begun, and we already have the next good news for this year: A young and eager team from the FAU in cooperation with the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will once again be able to take part in the Student Cluster Competition of the ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg...

The first HPC Café in 2025 will take place on January 14, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event. As always, there will be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. We invite you to come to NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee ...

Title: Efficient and robust hardware for neural networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Grace Li Zhang, Technische Universität Darmstadt Date and time: Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 2.00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/WUKlslQUk90 Abstract The last decade has witnessed significant breakthroughs ...

We are happy to announce a bugfix release of LIKWID (5.4.1). This is what got fixed: Fixes linking errors due to missing bstrlib.h Fix for likwid-bench kernel stream_mem Fix builds with CUDA for versions 11.2 to 12.6 Fix sysfeatures with ACCESSMODE=perf_event Add AMD Zen1 to Zen...

Today at about 10:45 a.m., a large-area power outage in Erlangen has brought all our clusters down. All running jobs have been terminated. Some frontends have been switched off manually to lower the load on the uninterruptible power supply infrastructure. We are working to get the systems running...