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We are happy to announce the NHR@FAU course program for Spring 2024. Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++. Full-day online course, February 29. The course covers fundamental tools and techniques for GPU-accelerated C/C++ applications with CUDA. The course and the hands-on exer...

On December 14, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, Director of the NHR@FAU, and Mr. André Singer of MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH from Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf signed the contract for the installation of two new HPC clusters worth about 10 million €. MEGWARE prevailed against several competitors in the E...

The 17th 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 PerfLab Seminar Talks and HPC Cafes  •  SC23 Conference  •  School Workshop on AI Suppo...

On November 29, NHR@FAU supported a workshop of the "Hochbegabtenmodell Mittelfranken" (HMM) on AI and medicine for 11th graders. The HMM is an extracurricular program for highly gifted students from schools in the region. The workshop was conducted by Marc Vornehm from the Computational Imaging Lab...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event. As always, there will be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. We invite you to come to RRZE to have coffee and cake, just like old times. The event will start with the open coffee ...

Title: Mixed-Precision Computing: An Overview Speaker: Théo Mary, PhD, Sorbonne University Date and time: Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/cFooTjOJTEM?si=trqPQKL2EGXQSeGs Abstract: Modern hardware supports an increasingly wide range of arithmetic...

This year's Supercomputing Conference (SC23) took place in Denver, Colorado from November 12 to 17. As the largest and most important international event for HPC, it offered once again an extensive and diverse technical and scientific program as well as numerous exchange opportunities about innovati...

We are happy to release version 5.3.0 of LIKWID, the tools suite for performance oriented programmers. Thanks to all the contributors, especially HPE for the AMD ROCm backend. You can download it from our FTP server or the GitHub repository. Changelog for 5.3.0: - Support for Intel SapphireRa...

Topic:  VASP Benchmarks Speaker: Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/webplayer/id/242749 Abstract:  Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a software package for performing Kohn-Sham density functional calculations as well as other ab-initio quantum-mechani...

On October 21, the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” (Long Night of Science) again provided thrilling insights into the activities of universities and companies in the greater Nuremberg area. For the eleventh time, the HPC team was part of an event that offers a huge spectrum of opportunities for rea...