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The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 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 a...

The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will move to a new RAID today. Therefore the instance will be down for maintenance until possibly late evening today (2026-01-14).

Topic: From Picojoules to Gigawatt-hours: Energy-to-Completion and GPU DVFS for LLM Workloads Speaker: Prof. Dr. Holger Fröning (Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI), Heidelberg University) Date and time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) an...

Topic: Scaling and accelerating LLM trainings Speaker: Andrea Pilzer, Ph.D.  (NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Italy) Date and time: Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. CET Slides Abstract: In this talk, we explore scaling laws to understand the rationale behind large-scale training. W...

At last year’s Supercomputing 25 conference, which was held in St. Louis, USA, FAU once again successfully participated in person in the Indy Student Cluster Competition (IndySCC 25) with its student team FAUltier. In preparation, the team had to combine multiple resources from the Jetstream2 Cloud ...

  All nodes of the work partition in TinyFAT and major parts of the A100 / RTX3080 nodes in TinyGPU are currently unavailable due to network issues. Do not expect a fix during the closure of the University. Update 07.01.2026 18:00: Reason for the problems is a switch that seems to be...

Today, shortly before Christmas, we are happy to announce a new LIKWID release, version 5.5.1. Fixes for AMD RAPL units Fixes for AMD Zen4/4c/5/5c memory controllers Updated help text formats The new version can be downloaded from our FTP and on GitHub. It will be available soon in...

Welcome to the first HPC Café of 2026 on January 13. This time we're starting with a presentation in German on the topic of "Exportkontrolle & HPC"---perfect for anyone who is new to the field or works with it regularly. This is also a topic that concerns professors, group leaders, and PIs since...

Topic: Using Visual Studio Code Efficiently Speaker: Chang Liu, NHR@FAU Slides Abstract: Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a powerful IDE, and thanks to its rich ecosystem of community-developed extensions, it has become increasingly popular among HPC users. In this HPC Café, we’ll share prac...

This year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC25), the largest and best-known event for High-Performance Computing (HPC) worldwide, took place from November 16–21 in St. Louis, Missouri. Under the motto “HPC Ignites,” the global HPC community once again gathered for a week of groundbreaking research, tec...