Systems

There will be scheduled downtime of our Tier-3-clusters TinyGPU and TinyFat, including the frontend `tinyx` and special machines like `memoryhog`, starting on Wednesday, May 7 at 09:00 and lasting at least the whole day. Reason for the downtime is an OS update.

We had to perform an emergency shutdown for the clusters Fritz and Helma today (Wednesday, April 16) at around 13:30, after the cold water supply for these clusters failed at around 13:10. All jobs running at that time were terminated (ungently). Update 16.04. 15:50: First analysis showed that a ...

Our file server titan crashed Montag 24.03 20:00. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but impossible at times. We are working on resolving the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.   UPDATE 25.03. 9:40: /home/titan ...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting on Monday, 17.03. at 9:00 and expected to last until about 17:00. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and filesystems will be avai...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting this Thursday, 13.02. at 9:00 and expected to last until about 17:00. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and filesystems will be available most...

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...

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...