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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...

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 fileserver...

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 Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) and online via Zoom Slides Abstract: This talk highlights how domain d...

On January 20, the AI Innovation Sprint took place at ZOLLHOF as a compact, high-intensity hackathon. The winning team included FAU students and working students from NHR@FAU, BMW, and Siemens Healthineers, combining academic and industry perspectives. The Challenge All teams worked on the same ch...

Batch processing has been stopped on Alex, Helma, and Woody for detailed system inspection. We'll update this message once we know more details and the expected return to operation. 2026-01-29 @ 07:35 - Batch processing has been resumed. SSH access to your nodes with running jobs is currentl...

Due to a hardware failure, the /anvme partition on Alex requires urgent maintenance on January 27. Therefore, the Alex cluster will be unavailable between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on that day. UPDATE 17:20 - several workspaces have been unaccessible until now; sorry for that

The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will get a major version update. Therefore the instance will be down on coming Monday throughout the day (26.01.).

Don't miss our upcoming Courses 2026:  The NHR@FAU once again offers a wide range of trainings and courses on various topics to start the new year: Parallel Programming... Feb 10-12, Hybrid Programming in HPC – MPI+X, Three-Day, Hybrid at HLRS Feb 24-26, Parallel Programming of High-Perfo...