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At the ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg, the collaborative team "FAUSION," a joint effort between students from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), secured third place in the prestigious Student Cluster Competition. Under the s...

The 65th Top500 list was released today at the ISC High Performance 2025 Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The list ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world using the "High Performance LINPACK" benchmark. Helma, NHR@FAU's GPU supercomputer, was recently expanded with another 96 nodes for a...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU starting on Sunday, June 08 (Pentecost), at 6:00, and lasting at least until the evening of Tuesday, June 10. Main reason for the unusually long downtime is part 1 of the reconfiguration of /home/atuin (which hosts $WORK for N...

Current and future users of BayernKI resources for science can join the first BayernKI Q&A Session! We are pleased to invite you to our first BayernKI Q&A Session, jointly organized by NHR@FAU and LRZ. It takes place on Wednesday, June 4 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. This online session will ...

As a collaboration among the nine NHR Centers of the NHR Alliance, the NHR Graduate School offers a unique program for PhD students. It provides support to talented fellows who specialize in computational science and high-performance computing. Each year, the fellows are offered a course week at a d...

The FAU team for the ASC25 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at Qinghai University in Xining, China, has returned with a lot of valuable experience and exciting impressions. In a successful online preliminary round with roughly 150 teams, the five students were among the 25 best teams and thus quali...

Since 2022, NHR@FAU has its GPU cluster “Alex” in operation, which contains a total of 192 NVIDIA A100 and 304 NVIDIA A40 GPGPUs with eight cards per node. To allow for an easier comparison with the already installed GPUs in the “TinyGPU” cluster (NVIDIA RTX2080Ti, NVIDIA RTX3080, and NVIDIA V100) a...

The ISC 2025 in Hamburg is one of the best places in the world to be for learning about high-performance computing and its applications.  Its goal is to spread knowledge, foster innovation, and promote international teamwork in this area through its rich program of keynotes, conference talks, worksh...

The supercomputer "Helma" has been extended in April 2025 with another 384 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Comprising 768 NVIDIA GPUs (half each H100 and H200), it is now the most powerful system at German universities. Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume has officially started the early user access phase on ...

Since about 6:00 p.m. today, the parallel filesystem ($FASTTMP) is partially down. Jobs on Fritz, Alex, and Helma may be affected. We are working on solving the issue and apologize for the incovenience. Update : Lustre is fully available again.