Systems

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04AUG 2026
HPC
[resolved] System reservation on Fritz + Helma due to outage of cooling
Fritz and Helma have a system reservation since Tuesday, August 4th at 11:15 due to outage of the central cooling infrastructure. Currently, no new jobs start but already running jobs have not been killed. We are observing the situation. If temperature raises further, we may have to kill running jobs to prevent hardware damage. Update […]
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08JUL 2026
Allgemein
All HPC systems at NHR@FAU are offline due to security issues – mostly solved
We need to inform you that access to all NHR@FAU systems had to be taken offline immediately.NHR@FAU follows many other HPC centers who took the same action. The reason for this is a potential security issue in the Linux kernel that requires urgent investigation and patching. What does this mean for you? We will roll […]
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29JUN 2026
Systems
Scheduled downtime of Fritz and Helma on July 6 – and 7
There will be a scheduled downtime of the Fritz and Helma clusterstarting at 06:00 on Monday, July 6.We expect normal operation to resume by the evening that day. Reason for the downtime is maintenance work on the cooling water pipes in the building. We will also use this opportunity to switch the ‘default’ on Fritz […]
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23JUN 2026
Allgemein
Unscheduled downtime Helma+Fritz 23.06.
Unscheduled downtime Helma+Fritz 23.06.
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05JUN 2026
Systems
File system hickups on /home/hpc and /home/vault
On Friday afternoon around 5:15 pm, our /home/hpc and /home/vault file system had a hickup and no more metadata could be written. This led to “No space left on device” error messages for some of our users. Our admins were quickly able to identify the underlying problem: again severe file system abuse by some people, […]
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05JUN 2026
Systems
Scheduled downtime of all systems at NHR@FAU on June 9 + 10
There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAUstarting at 06:30 on Tuesday, June 9.We expect normal operation to resume by the evening of Wednesday, June 10. As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until the downtime is over. Frontends and most fileservers will be […]
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