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On Monday, March 23, Helma will be down due to a maintenance of cooling distribution units (CDUs). Currently, we are confident that the system will be back online in evening the same day.

Due to mandatory changes to the cooling water supply in our main server room, some nodes have to be turned off from Monday 16.03 until Wednesday 18.03. Affected are: TinyGPU (tg08x - RTX3080 and tg09x - A100) TinyFAT (tf04x, tf05x, tf06x-tf09x) Testcluster   UPDATE 2026-03-1...

On Thursday, March 12, 2026, the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) welcomed a Member of the German Bundestag: Rebecca Lenhard came to talk with us about the latest advancements in the fields of energy efficiency, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies. ...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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. CET with an ...

The 2nd International Workshop on Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Performance (EESP) will take place on June 26 at the ISC High Performance in Hamburg and is aimed at providing a framework for exchanging practical approaches, ideas, and techniques for energy efficiency when working with artificia...

Topic: The MAQAO performance analysis and optimization framework Speaker: Prof. William Jalby and Dr. Cédric Valensi, University of Versailles Date and time: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: MAQAO aims at providing...

On March 9, 2026, the NHR|WHPC Chapter will host the special online event "She Computes: Celebrating Career Journeys in WHPC" to celebrate International Women’s Day. It will take place from 12:00–13:15 CET, featuring a keynote by Ayesha Afzal (NHR@FAU), an invited talk by Eleanor Broadway, and six l...

Topic: Human vs. AI - Who Is Better At Sparse Computation? Speaker: Jee Whan Choi, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Date and time: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Abstract: We present the reinforcement-learned adapti...

Another success story from NHR@FAU: On February 19, doctoral candidate Ayesha Afzal successfully defended her thesis and thus completed her PhD supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. In her research, Ayesha worked on "A Holistic White-Box Approach to Performance Modeling for Supercomputing." Sh...

The 39th POP webinar takes place in February, provided by the Performance Optimisation and Productivity CoE. Find further information and the registration at the official webpage of the event. Topic: ParaViz3D: MPI Trace Visualization with 3D Video Speaker: Jean-Yves Verhaeghe, NHR@FAU Date...