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Speaker: Dr. Tobias Kenter (University of Paderborn) Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow-Water Simulations on FPGAs Date and time: Tuesday, October 19, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Abstract: Shallow water simulations with the discontinuous Galerkin method are an important tool for flood predictions, ...

With the beginning of 2021, eight National High Performance Computing (NHR) Centers have been established throughout Germany. The three centers in Paderborn (PC2), Erlangen (NHR@FAU), and Berlin (NHR@ZIB) have a joint focus on atomistic simulations and as such form the virtual Atomistic Simulation C...

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Kühne (University of Paderborn) Title: Towards exascale simulations using the submatrix method and approximate computing Date and time: Tuesday, October 5, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/llDEHirYZPQ Abstract: We present the submatrix method and a novel ...

Dear Symposium participant, with this short note we want to cordially thank you for your interest and participation in the Inauguration Symposium of the NHR Atomistic Simulation Center (ASC)! We were excited to see so many people register for the meeting. Although in the era of Zoom hopping on a...

Speaker: Dr. Christian Iwainsky (TU Darmstadt) Title: Performance Measurements in HPC: Techniques, Side Effects, and Use Abstract: Optimizing and tailoring an HPC code to a given system and problem requires a good understanding of code's hardware utilization. Performance measurements are th...

It is our pleasure to announce a retake of the popular three-day course "Modern C++ Software design" by Dr. Klaus Iglberger. This course is made possible by KONWIHR and NHR@FAU. It will be conducted online via Zoom. Date and time September 29 - October 1, 2021, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Participati...

It is our pleasure to announce the third NHR@FAU Newsletter. The newsletter is a publication that summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Beyond events, every newsletter highlights special or noteworthy achievements by NHR scientis...

In light of our new cluster procurement for NHR@FAU, we ran several benchmarks on both an Intel Xeon "Ice Lake" Platinum 8360Y node (2x 36 cores + SMT) and different NVIDIA GPUs to determine the optimal hardware configuration for our users. For the corresponding host CPUs of the GPUs, please visit o...

On July 27, 2021 we presented an open webinar with lectures and demos/hands-on for the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, showcasing the tools likwid-topology, likwid-pin, likwid-perfctr, and OSACA for analyzing the performance of SpMV on the A64FX processor with...

Speaker: Sebastian Oeste (Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen (ZIH) at TU Dresden) Title: Exclusive file systems for power users with BeeGFS and network NVMe storage Abstract: On most HPC systems, the parallel file system is a shared resource that is used from different...