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Our next Meetup is on Wednesday, November 5. Join the Molecular Dynamics Meetup (MolDynMeet) hosted by NHR@FAU on the first Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Our liaison scientists will be available to assist with optimizing the performance of your MD simulations, troubleshooting sim...

Topic: Generative AI & Probabilistic Learned Solvers Speaker: Prof. Nils Thürey, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Date and time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 10:30 p.m. CET  Location: seminar room 02.049 (RRZE, Martensstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen) Or online via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de...

On the evening of October 25, 2025, the cities of Erlangen, Nürnberg, and Fürth sparkled with curiosity and creativity during the "Long Night of Science." From 5 p.m. until midnight, thousands of visitors explored behind-the-scenes views of research labs, institutes, and companies across the region,...

The 6th Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing State of the Practice (EE HPC SOP) Workshop will be held on January 26, 2026, in Osaka, Japan, in conjunction with SCA/HPCAsia 2026. There is still time to contribute to the event by submitting papers till the deadline of November 3, 2025. The even...

In four days, the "Long Night of Sciences" (LNDW) will invite you to marvel, participate, and learn. We look forward to seeing you at our "HPC Village—supercomputers at work". Together with scientists from our partner institutions, NHR@FAU presents various fascinating fields of application fr...

Topic: Memories of a Performance Engineer: 38 Years of Tools Building Speaker: Dr. Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Center Date and time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Location: seminar room 02.049 (RRZE, Martensstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen) Or online via Zoom: https://go-nhr.de...

Unscheduled downtime of Fritz from October 16 On the night of October 15 we encountered severe issues with Slurm resulting in many jobs crashing. Batch operation is currently halted. We are investigating the incident. As of now we do not have an estimate when operation of Fritz can be resumed...

Due to complications encountered during maintenance work on the cooling infrastructure, said infrastructure is currently operating with severely reduced capacity. To ensure cooling availability for critical infrastructure, we will have to shut down most of the clusters. Jobs that are already runn...

On October 13, 2025, the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) hosts a landmark event, the "Symposium: 25 years of HPC in Bavaria," marking a major milestone in high-performance computing history for the region. The symposium  brings together leaders from government, academia, and industry in a hy...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. CEST 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. CEST with...