Teaching

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...

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...

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...

Title: A review of processor advances over the past thirty years - an outsider's perspective (hybrid) Speaker: Dr. Jan Eitzinger, NHR@FAU Date and time: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/oXACVA1O_2U?si=Xuce0fOY7BHe4RWD Abstract: This talk provides ...

Our popular “Node-Level Performance Engineering” full-day tutorial has been accepted again (now the twelfth time in a row!) for presentation at SC23, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber, and Gerhard Wellein will te...

This course introduces the molecular dynamics engine GROMACS, including fundamental commands and applications. Over three days (October 10-12, 2023, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m), the participants will learn how to prepare and run simulations of biomolecular systems (including, e.g., membranes and proteins) at a...

The next HPC Cafe takes place on Tuesday, September 12, 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...

Topic:  Using the Jupyterhub service at NHR@FAU Speaker: Dr. Johannes Veh, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/48842 Abstract:  Jupyter notebooks are growing in popularity for python, Julia and R development, thanks to interactive code execution. Jupyterhub brings the power of ...

Topic:  Computer Architecture 101 for Scientists, and what it means for your cluster jobs Speaker: Dr. Georg Hager, Head of Training & Support, NHR@FAU Slides https://www.fau.tv/clip/id/48566 Abstract: Not knowing how a supercomputer works can literally cost you the better pa...