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28JAN 2026
Allgemein
Batch processing stopped on Alex, Helma, and Woody
Batch processing has been stopped on Alex, Helma, and Woody for detailed system inspection. We’ll update this message once we know more details and the expected return to operation. 2026-01-29 @ 07:35 – Batch processing has been resumed. SSH access to your nodes with running jobs is currently not possible; follow the instructions from attach-to-a-running-job […]
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26JAN 2026
Allgemein
Downtime of Alex on Jan 27 due to short-term maintenance of /anvme – FINISHED
Due to a hardware failure, the /anvme partition on Alex requires urgent maintenance on January 27. Therefore, the Alex cluster will be unavailable between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on that day. UPDATE 17:20 – several workspaces have been unaccessible until now; sorry for that
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26NOV 2025
HPC
Systems down due to power glitch – SOLVED
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 running again. […]
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16OCT 2025
HPC
Unscheduled downtime of the “Fritz” cluster from October 16
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. We will keep this post […]
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10OCT 2025
Allgemein
Unscheduled downtime of most of our systems since Friday, Oct. 10 until Oct. 16
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 running will probably be able to finish, but no new jobs will be run. […]
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08OCT 2025
Allgemein
Supercomputer “Helma” inaugurated: fastest computer at German universities
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 cutting-edge applications and allows broad-based support for Bavarian researchers. The ceremony was attended by numerous guests […]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 cutting-edge applications and allows broad-based support for Bavarian researchers. The ceremony was attended by numerous guests […]
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