Systems

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...

The next HPC Café takes place VIRTUALLY on Tuesday, June 14, at 4 p.m. The HPC Café is a new offering to complement our established contact channels and training events. This is an opportunity to get to know each other and to stay up to speed with current developments at NHR@FAU. After a general ...

As already announced in the HPC Cafe in January for summer, we will now reinstall the RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes in TinyGPU with Ubuntu 20.04 (instead of Ubuntu 18.04) and integrate them into the Slurm batch system of the RTX3080/A100 GPU nodes. First RTX2080Ti and V100 nodes have already been reinstalled and moved to Slurm in the past days. The remaining nodes will follow gradually until end of October to allow a smooth transition.

We are pleased to announce an invited talk by Benjamin Huth from the University of Regensburg about "Vectorized matrix-multiplication on the NEC SX-Aurora." The NEC SX-Aurora "Tsubasa" is NEC's latest vector processor architecture. Last year, RRZE has acquired a system with two "Tsubasa" vector a...

CUDA-9.0 has been made available on TinyGPU. In particular applications from machine learning might benefit from the new version (at least according to the release notes). However, cuDNN is still not available due to licensing issues - NVidia only grants individual, personal licenses. If you need cu...