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The world of high performance computing shall meet again this year at SC24, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Atlanta, GA, from November 17-22. This time, NHR@FAU is again involved in various activities. As reported before, the FAU ...

We had the special opportunity to talk to Alexander Winterl, a PhD student in biophysics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research involves penguin counts in the Antarctic, and by using the computing power of the NHR@FAU Woody cluster he was able to develop an ...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event. As always, there will be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. We invite you to come to RRZE to have coffee and cake. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with coffee, cake, and open chat. A...

One of our file servers experiences extremely high load since October 2 evening. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but impossible at times. We are working on resolving the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.   UPDA...

Good news for the Faculty of Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and also for us at NHR@FAU: In its latest meeting, the City Council of Erlangen approved a further expansion of the southern university campus, which will also provide more space for NHR@FAU in th...

Each year, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) invites student teams from all over the world to compete in several tough challenges, all related to high performance computing and computing center operation. The competition takes place during the largest conference for high performance computing, t...

Title: Kokkos: Getting lucky by design Speaker: Christian Trott, Co-leader of the Kokkos core team, Sandia National Laboratories Date and time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 4.00 p.m. CEST https://youtu.be/y3HHBl4kV7g Abstract Achieving widespread adoption of a software project involve...

We are pleased to invite to you to the talk "Hopfions in Condensed Matter: Anisotropic Heisenberg Magnets," given by Avadh Saxena from Los Alamos National Lab. It will take place on Wednesday, September 18th, at 2 pm as a hybrid event. On site, you'll find the talk in Hall F of the Phsikum (Staudstr...

Focus topic:  Power and energy consumption of HPC systems Time and date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 4:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Georg Hager, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/53830 Abstract: In this talk we will show how much power and energy is consumed by HPC clusters and how t...

This year's SC24 Conference takes place from November 17 to November 20 in Atlanta, GA, USA. The NHR Alliance together with Women in HPC (WHPC) now offers travel grants each worth up to € 2,500. In order to qualify for the travel grant, applicants must be SC24 participants and affiliated with a Germ...