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In February and March 2024, many HPC acocunts from FAU's basic Tier3 HPC service (those accounts usually start with 4 characters, followed by 3 digits, and an "h" at the end unless they are already very old) have been migrated from the IdM portal to the HPC portal (https://portal.hpc.fau.de/). Both ...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all of NHR@FAUs HPC systems, including frontends and fileservers, on Monday, February 26, starting at 08:30, and lasting the whole day. Reason for the downtime is miscellaneous maintenance, including but not limited to some central fileservers, which is wh...

As of February 21, 2024, our system documentation, including cluster docs, application tips and tricks, software and tools, batch system, FAQs, etc., have moved from our main WordPress page to a new home: https://doc.nhr.fau.de/. We took the opportunity to reorganize the material and remove moldy ol...

Christie Alappat, Georg Hager, and Gerhard Wellein from NHR@FAU organize a two-part minisymposium at SIAM Parallel Processing 2024 in Baltimore, MD (full conference program available), on March 7, 2024. It is titled “Advancements in Sparse Linear Algebra: Hardware-Aware Algorithms and Optimization T...

Title: Performance of linear solvers in tensor-train format on current multicore architectures (hybrid) Speaker: Melven Röhrig-Zöllner, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Date and time: Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Location: IT-Schulungsraum (Martensstrasse 3, room 01.135) or v...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently booming as a new and exciting component in research, which makes an adequate compute infrastructure pivotal for scientists. Although NHR@FAU currently offers state-of-the-art supercomputers, these resources will be insufficient to keep up with the expected f...

This brand new two-part course provides an in-depth coverage of how to put multiple NVIDIA GPUs to work in your code. Please note that the successful participation in a CUDA intro course such as "Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++" is a required prerequisite to benefit from thi...

Alex and Fritz are currently unavailable due to issued with the parallel file system (/lustre) since Tuesday, February 13, 16 o'clock. Expect also reboots of the login nodes. UPDATE: Batch processing has been resumed on Wednesday morning at around 7 o'clock. Thanks to our system integrator for...

The 18th NHR@FAU Newsletter is available. This publication summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. These are the current topics: Upcoming HPC Cafe and NHR PerfLab Seminar Talks in February and March •  Call for KONWIHR Projec...

Every two years, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAG/SC) awards a best paper prize to the authors of the most outstanding paper in the field of parallel scientific and engineering computing published in English in a peer-reviewed journal. ...