Systems

We will be decommissioning 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 r...

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...