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23APR 2026
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Massive expansion of computing power for AI research
On April 23rd, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts in Munich launched a massive expansion of AI computing capabilities for science and research in Bavaria. NHR@FAU and Megware signed a contract for the delivery of a new AI supercomputer to FAU. The new system will house more than 1,000 NVIDIA B200 chips […]
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23APR 2026
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NHR PerfLab Seminar: SCALE—Ahead-of-time compilation of CUDA for HPC platforms (online)
Title: SCALE—Ahead-of-time compilation of CUDA for HPC platforms Speaker: Chris Kitching, Founder and CTO, Spectral Compute Date and time: Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract: We propose a radically different way of thinking about GPU portability: If CUDA is cross-platform enough to model 20 years worth of Nvidia’s hardware, why […]
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21APR 2026
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[Resolved] Downtime of Fritz on April 23 and 24
There will be a scheduled downtime of Fritz from April 23, 7 am till April 24, 3 pm due to maintenance work on the clusters power supply. Jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until after the downtime. Update 2026-04-24@13:30: Fritz is up and running again.
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21APR 2026
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The first CpHMD tutorial was a success!
The first tutorial on constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) simulations successfully took place at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Liaison scientist Marius Trollmann, PhD student at the Computational Biology group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Böckmann, organized the two-day course in which seven participants from Spain, Italy, France, and Germany came together in Erlangen. In a relaxed atmosphere, the […]The first tutorial on constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) simulations successfully took place at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Liaison scientist Marius Trollmann, PhD student at the Computational Biology group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Böckmann, organized the two-day course in which seven participants from Spain, Italy, France, and Germany came together in Erlangen. In a relaxed atmosphere, the […]
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13APR 2026
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BMBF projects StroemungsRaum and DaREXA completed—with numerous results
Two of the BMBF-funded projects at the NHR@FAU recently concluded with the submission of their closing reports: StroemungsRaum and DaREXA-F. Both activities ran for about three years and have now been successfully completed. In the following, we briefly describe the contributions of NHR@FAU to th4se StroemungsRaum Within the StroemungsRaum project, new and extended solver approaches […]
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02APR 2026
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[Resolved] Downtime of Helma on Apr 7 due to maintenance of CDUs
On Tuesday, April 7, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day. Update: The cluster is up and running again.
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