The eighth HPC-Status-Konferenz of Gauß-Allianz will take place at RRZE in Erlangen at the 8. und 9. Oktober 2018. The annual HPC-Status-Konferenz offers scientists and practitioners the opportunity for interdicziplinary exchange in the field of recent research and all question regarding High Per... Continue

Science Node, a free online publication developed in collaboration with organizations in the US and Europe, has featured an article with and about Moritz Kreutzer, our recent PhD graduate and SPPEXA PhD Award winner, focusing on his work with performance engineering for sparse linear algebra: https:... Continue

Our popular "Node-Level Performance Engineering" full-day tutorial has been accepted again (now the seventh time in a row!) for presentation at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. We teach the basics of node-level computer architecture... Continue

It is our pleasure to announce a talk by Dr.-Ing. Jan Eitzinger (RRZE). Title: Der unstillbare Hunger nach Rechenleistung: 25 Jahre High Performance Computing am RRZE Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018, 15:00 - 16:30 Place: RRZE Room 2.049, Martensstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen Abstract: Das RRZE... Continue

The Gauss Award is sponsored by the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is a collaboration of the German national supercomputing centers at Garching, Jülich and Stuttgart. The winner receives a cash prize of 3,000 €, courtesy of the Gauss Center, which is traditionally presented during the ... Continue

Our popular two-day tutorial about Node-Level Performance Engineering will be featured again at the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) on June 14-15, 2018. The course is part of the official PATC (PRACE Advanced Training Center) curriculum. A detailed program and a registration link ... Continue

LIKWID 4.3.2 has just been released. This is an important maintenance release if you need support for the latest architectures: Support for Intel Knights Mill (core, RAPL, Uncore) AMD Zen: Use RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS instead of fixed-purpose counter for metric calculation Intel Skylake X: So... Continue

The HPC group members Jan Eitzinger and Markus Wittmann are giving lectures within the LRZ PRACE Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing. In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis, I/O and PG... Continue

We are proud to announce that Moritz Kreutzer, who recently defended his PhD thesis titled "Performance Engineering for Exascale-Enabled Sparse Linear Algebra Building Blocks," was awarded the 2017 SPPEXA Best PhD Award. Congratulations! Continue

It is our pleasure to announce a talk by Prof. Martin Schulz (TU Munich). Title: A Case for More Adaptivity in HPC Time: Monday, February 5, 2018, 16:15 Place: RRZE e-Studio (Room 02.037) Abstract: Current HPC environments and applications are rather rigid and inflexible: applications... Continue