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29JUN 2026
Systems
Scheduled downtime of Fritz and Helma on July 6
There will be a scheduled downtime of the Fritz and Helma clusterstarting at 06:00 on Monday, July 6.We expect normal operation to resume by the evening that day. Reason for the downtime is maintenance work on the cooling water pipes in the building. We will also use this opportunity to switch the ‘default’ on Fritz […]
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02JUL 2026
HPC
NHR PerfLab Seminar: Analog In-Memory Computing for Efficient Large Language Model Deployment (July 7, online)
Speaker: Iason Chalas, IBM Research Zurich Date and time: Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CEST Location: online via Zoom Abstract: Large language models are transforming modern computing, but their deployment at scale is increasingly limited by the cost and energy of inference. A key bottleneck lies in the separation between memory and computation, where […]
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01JUL 2026
Allgemein
NHR@FAU visits the ISQBP in Cluj-Napoca
Anna Kahler and Marius Trollmann from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) participated in the 2026 President’s Meeting of the ISQBP in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The meeting focused on the multi-scale simulation of biomolecules ranging from quantum-level descriptions to highly coarse-grained models. Over four days, they presented their current research and engaged with leading experts from around the […]Anna Kahler and Marius Trollmann from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) participated in the 2026 President’s Meeting of the ISQBP in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The meeting focused on the multi-scale simulation of biomolecules ranging from quantum-level descriptions to highly coarse-grained models. Over four days, they presented their current research and engaged with leading experts from around the […]
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30JUN 2026
HPC
Monthly HPC Café: The Blue Swan AI Gigafactory—A Bavarian Proposal
The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 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 an open coffee […]
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27JUN 2026
Allgemein
ISC Top 500 2026: NHR@FAU ranks four clusters on the list
The 67th TOP500 list was released on Monday, June 22 at the ISC High Performance Conference 2026 in Hamburg and officially unveiled to the international high-performance computing community. Published twice a year, the TOP500 ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers based on their performance in the LINPACK benchmark, which measures the ability of a system […]
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25JUN 2026
Allgemein
DFG Research Unit “Mod4Comp” is starting off
On June 11 and 12, the seven project partners of the new DFG Research Unit “Mod4Comp” (Holistic Energy and Performance Modeling for Sustainable Computing, FOR5880) officially kicked off the project during a meeting at NHR@FAU. In this four-year effort, research groups from FAU (Chair of Computer Architecture, NHR@FAU, Professorship for High Performance Comuting), TU Dresden […]
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