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Topic: Learning Efficient Sparse Encoding for High-Performance Tensor Computations 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 rein...

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 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...

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...

As announced in our February 2026 newsletter, our reliable workhorse cluster "Meggie," inaugurated in 2017, has finally gone out of service on February 15. Meggie was the default Tier-3 compute resource for countless HPC customers of RRZE and later NHR@FAU. After nine years of operation, hardware fa...

On February 11, 2026, Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Köstler while serving as a research assistant at NHR@FAU. During his doctoral studies, Rafael developed MD-Bench, a performance-focused pr...

On February 4, 2026, Christie Louis Alappat successfully defended his PhD thesis. He worked for several years in our team and completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein. His research interests included performance engineering, sparse matrix algorithms, graph al...

There will be a scheduled downtime of all the HPC systems of NHR@FAU, starting on Wednesday, February 11, at 8:30, and expected to last until the evening of Thursday, February 12. Reason for the downtime is maintenance on various systems, including but not limited to central fileservers. ...

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...

Topic: Domain Decomposition-Based Preconditioners and Neural Networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Heinlein, TU Delft Date and time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET https://youtu.be/fDacQIqwrzs Slides Abstract: This talk highlights how domain decomposition methods—rooted ...