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Today, the LIKWID team has released a new major version. Version 5.5.0 comes with new architectures, some fixes and some changes to internals: Added support for AMD Zen5 Topdown metrics for Intel Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, and Granite Rapids Update for Nvidia GPU support Less s...

On April 29 and 30, the SCS Hackathon 2025 took place at FAU, jointly organized by the NHR@FAU and the Sovereign Cloud Stack project. 22 participants from various places, even from the Netherlands and Slovakia, were welcomed to share creative ideas and impressive solutions. For two days, members ...

Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is now "Intel-ready" The Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is a tool that can analyze assembly code and produce a best-case runtime prediction assuming that the data is in the L1 cache. Its analysis is based on throughput and latency of ...

The first HPC Café in 2025 will take place on January 14, 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee ...

We are happy to announce a bugfix release of LIKWID (5.4.1). This is what got fixed: Fixes linking errors due to missing bstrlib.h Fix for likwid-bench kernel stream_mem Fix builds with CUDA for versions 11.2 to 12.6 Fix sysfeatures with ACCESSMODE=perf_event Add AMD Zen1 to Zen...

After a year without an update, we are happy to release the new version 5.4.0 of LIKWID. This is what's new: Support for Intel Granite Rapids (core, energy, uncore) Support for Intel Sierra Forest (core, energy, uncore) Support for AMD Bergamo (core, energy, uncore) Support for Nvi...

We are happy to announce that the NHR@FAU JupyterHub server (accessible via the HPC Portal) now provides options to start sessions for Matlab, R-Studio, and the Whisper transcription web service for our Tier-3 customers (i.e., FAU staff and students, plus the FAU service coverage area). Several j...

We are happy and proud to announce the initial stable release of cc-backend, the central Web UI and API backend for the ClusterCockpit job-specific monitoring framework. At the same time, we have launched a ClusterCockpit website. ClusterCockpit is a job-specific performance and power monitoring ...

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...

We are happy to announce the new version 5.2.2 of the LIKWID toolsuite. It contains bugfixes for various architectures and execution modes. You can download it from our FTP server or the GitHub repository. Changelog: Fix pin string parsing in pinning library Make SBIN path configurable...