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The HPC portal, our platform for HPC account and project management, is currently (at least since 17:00) down. The reason is a problem with the underlying container infrastructure. We are working towards a solution, but it is currently unclear when the portal will be available again. We apologize...

Title: Mixing precisions in numerical algorithms: HPC perspective with modern hardware context Speaker: Piotr Luszczek, MIT Lincoln Lab, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Date and time: Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST Slides https://youtu.be/d_SwG8j9CCs Abstract IEE...

Topic:  GROMACS 2024 usage and performance on modern CPUs and GPUs Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Anna Kahler, NHR@FAU Location: seminar room 2.049 (RRZE, Martensstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen) and Zoom: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69439931483 Slides: Gromacs2024-Usage-and-Per...

Title: Quantum Computing at the DLR Institute of Software Technology—Algorithms and Applications Speaker: Dr.-Ing. Achim Basermann, High-Performance Computing Department, German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute for Software Technology Date and time: Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CEST...

A big water pipe has burst in the basement of the building where the w2xxx nodes are housed at around 12:30. As a result, the cooling water that used to be in the pipes was forming a pretty little swimming pool in the basement, and the cooling for the w2xxx nodes (i.e. the nodes with 32 Intel IceLak...

The 20th 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: NHR@FAU Course Program for Summer/Fall of 2024 •  Upcoming HPC Cafe on "AI in Bavaria"  •  Upcom...

Monthly HPC Café: AI Round Table – State and Future of AI-based Research in Bavaria (June 11, hybrid event) Topic:  AI Round Table – State and Future of AI-based Research in Bavaria Speakers: Prof. Gerhard Wellein, NHR@FAU / Dr. Nicolay Hammer, LRZ / various AI users Slides: BayernKI-NHR@FA...

We are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for summer and fall of 2024. Unless otherwise indicated, all courses include hands-on components. Introduction to the LIKWID Tool Suite. Full-day online course, July 23. The LIKWID tool suite is a collection of performance tools for topology ...

At the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2024 next week in San Fancisco, CA, our PhD student Jan Laukemann will present a paper that came out of a collaboration between NHR@FAU and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL): "CloverLeaf on Intel Multi-Core CPUs: A Case St...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 00:00 and lasting all day. (*) As usual, Jobs that would collide with the downtime will be postponed until the downtime is over. Most frontends and fileservers will be available most of the time, but...