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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 ...

The 64th Top500 list was released today at the SC24 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world according to the "High Performance LINPACK" benchmark, which solves a large, dense system of linear equations. We are thrilled to announce that the first part o...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting Tuesday, 29.10. at 7:30, and expected to last until about 18:00. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Reason for the downtime is general maintenance on cent...

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...

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...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 00:00 and lasting all day. (*) As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Most frontends and fileservers will be available most of the time, but...

One of our file servers experiences extremely high load since March 27. This is presumably caused by a user application with detrimental file access patterns, bringing the server to is knees. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but imposs...

As of February 21, 2024, our system documentation, including cluster docs, application tips and tricks, software and tools, batch system, FAQs, etc., have moved from our main WordPress page to a new home: https://doc.nhr.fau.de/. We took the opportunity to reorganize the material and remove moldy ol...