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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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06OCT 2025
HPC
Scheduled downtime of Fritz and Helma clusters from October 06 – 15
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 extended over the weekend. The reason for […]
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25AUG 2025
HPC
Scheduled downtime of all our HPC systems on Tuesday, August 26
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 (which hosts the main home directories for ALL […]
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03JUN 2025
Allgemein
Scheduled downtime of all our HPC systems from Sunday, June 08 until at least the evening of Tuesday, June 10
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 $WORK for NHR and BayernKI projects) […]
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14MAY 2025
HPC
Lustre file system partially down
Since about 6:00 p.m. today, the parallel filesystem ($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 [May 14, 7:30 p.m.]: Lustre is fully available again.
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14MAY 2025
HPC
Fritz and Helma clusters down for maintenance
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 [May 14, 3:00 p.m.] About half of the Fritz cluster nodes are up and running again. Update [May 15, 9:15 p.m.] The […]
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