Teaching

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...

Speaker: Dr. Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Title: LLVM in HPC – Enabling Performance Portability, Interoperability, and Novel Features Date and time: Tuesday, May 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/soyNZuMPec0 Abstract: In this talk we...

We are proud to announce a three-day online course on "Python for HPC," organized by the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). FAU students and scientists are eligible to participate free of charge. The Python programming language has become very popular in scientific computing for vari...

Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Ahmad Tarraf,  Technical University of Darmstadt, Laboratory for Parallel Programming Title: Conquering Noise With Hardware Counters on HPC Systems Date and time: Tuesday, April 18, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/M02vd2IB3Hw Abstract: With ...

Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Jenke, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Computer Science (High Performance Computing) Title: Asynchronous MPI communication with OpenMP tasks - spawning task dependency graphs across nodes Date and time: Tuesday, April 4, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CEST Slides ...

Our brand-new tutorial “Core-Level Performance Engineering” has been accepted as a full-day tutorial at ICPE 2023, the 14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. This tutorial concentrates on the in-core aspects of performance modeling and analysis on CPUs. We use Matt Godbol...

On December 16, Julian Hammer successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Design and Implementation of an Automated Performance Modeling Toolkit for Regular Loop Kernels.” Prof. Dietmar Fey, the head of the PhD committee, announced the good news after Julian had presented the main results of his w...