Systems

Today at about 10:45 a.m., a large-area power outage in Erlangen has brought all our clusters down. All running jobs have been terminated. Some frontends have been switched off manually to lower the load on the uninterruptible power supply infrastructure. We are working to get the systems running...

The last HPC Café in 2024 will take place on December 17, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event. Again, we invite you to an exchange with your favorite HPC group and an interesting talk featuring Christmas goodies and coffee. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee chat, and at 4:30 p.m., we w...

A big water pipe has burst in the basement of the building where the w2xxx nodes are housed at around 12:30. As a result, the cooling water that used to be in the pipes was forming a pretty little swimming pool in the basement, and the cooling for the w2xxx nodes (i.e. the nodes with 32 Intel IceLak...

There will be a scheduled downtime of our HPC systems: Monday, March 11, from 06:50 to 16:00, affecting ONLY Fritz Wednesday, March 20, from 00:00 to end of the day, affecting ALL our clusters including frontends and fileservers For the March 20 downtime: Reason is general maintenan...

In February and March 2024, many HPC accounts from FAU's basic Tier3 HPC service (those accounts usually start with 4 characters, followed by 3 digits, and an "h" at the end unless they are already very old) have been migrated from the IdM portal to the HPC portal (https://portal.hpc.fau.de/). Both ...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all of NHR@FAUs HPC systems, including frontends and fileservers, on Monday, February 26, starting at 08:30, and lasting the whole day. Reason for the downtime is miscellaneous maintenance, including but not limited to some central fileservers, which is wh...

Alex and Fritz are currently unavailable due to issued with the parallel file system (/lustre) since Tuesday, February 13, 16 o'clock. Expect also reboots of the login nodes. UPDATE: Batch processing has been resumed on Wednesday morning at around 7 o'clock. Thanks to our system integrator for...

On Friday, February 9th @ 19:30, one of the network file server (NFS) stopped working. As a consequence, many login and compute nodes became unresponsive as a major file system ($WORK for NHR projects) could not be accessed. The NFS server (atuin) has been rebooted and operation seems to be stabl...

Last night (Monday, August 28 @ 23:00) one of the network file server (NFS) stopped working. As a consequence, many login and compute nodes became unresponsive as a major file system ($WORK for NHR projects) cannot be accessed. We are working on resolving the issue. Batch processing on Alex an...

Valued Tier3 HPC users of NHR@FAU, as briefly announced in the HPC Cafe in June, we now started with switching from Woody with Ubuntu 18.04 and Torque to Woody-NG ("Woody Next Generation") with AlmaLinux8 as operating system and Slurm as batch system. Woody-NG uses the same operating system as the...