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As announced in our February 2026 newsletter, our reliable workhorse cluster "Meggie," inaugurated in 2017, has finally gone out of service on February 15. Meggie was the default Tier-3 compute resource for countless HPC customers of RRZE and later NHR@FAU. After nine years of operation, hardware fa...

On February 11, 2026, Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Köstler while serving as a research assistant at NHR@FAU. During his doctoral studies, Rafael developed MD-Bench, a performance-focused pr...

On February 4, 2026, Christie Louis Alappat successfully defended his PhD thesis. He worked for several years in our team and completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. His research interests included performance engineering, sparse matrix algorithms, graph al...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU, starting on Wednesday, February 11, at 8:30, and expected to last until the evening of Thursday, February 12. Reason for the downtime is maintenance on various systems, including but not limited to central fileservers. ...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. CET with a...

Topic: Domain Decomposition-Based Preconditioners and Neural Networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Heinlein, TU Delft Date and time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET https://youtu.be/fDacQIqwrzs Slides Abstract: This talk highlights how domain decomposition methods—rooted ...

On January 20, the AI Innovation Sprint took place at ZOLLHOF as a compact, high-intensity hackathon. The winning team included FAU students and working students from NHR@FAU, BMW, and Siemens Healthineers, combining academic and industry perspectives. The Challenge All teams worked on the same ch...

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 currentl...

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

The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will get a major version update. Therefore the instance will be down on coming Monday throughout the day (26.01.).