Systems

Today (November 26) at around 4:30 p.m., a short glitch on the city power lines led to most HPC systems going down: Fritz, Alex, Woody, Meggie, TinyGPU, TinyFat, the test cluster, and parts of Helma. Frontends are still up, but most jobs were killed. Admins are working to get the systems up and runn...

Unscheduled downtime of Fritz from October 16 On the night of October 15 we encountered severe issues with Slurm resulting in many jobs crashing. Batch operation is currently halted. We are investigating the incident. As of now we do not have an estimate when operation of Fritz can be resumed...

Due to complications encountered during maintenance work on the cooling infrastructure, said infrastructure is currently operating with severely reduced capacity. To ensure cooling availability for critical infrastructure, we will have to shut down most of the clusters. Jobs that are already runn...

State-of-the-art technology for research: With a celebratory colloquium on Tuesday, September 30, the NHR@FAU officially inaugurated the most powerful AI computer system currently available at German universities. As part of the BayernKI for Science initiative, "Helma" provides infrastructure for cu...

There will be a long scheduled downtime of the Fritz and Helma clusters, starting on Monday, October 06, and lasting at least until Friday, October 10 Wednesday, Oct. 15. While the general expectation is that the clusters will be back by Friday night, the downtime might have to be extende...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU on Tuesday, August 26, starting at 8:00, and lasting the whole day. Reason for the downtime is maintenance on central fileservers, in particular /home/atuin (which hosts $WORK for NHR and BayernKI projects) and /home/hpc (whi...

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...

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...

On April 29 and 30, the SCS Hackathon 2025 took place at FAU, jointly organized by the NHR@FAU and the Sovereign Cloud Stack project. 22 participants from various places, even from the Netherlands and Slovakia, were welcomed to share creative ideas and impressive solutions. For two days, members ...