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We are happy to announce a talk by Christian Iwainsky (TU Darmstadt) in the NHR PerfLab seminar. Title: Performance Measurements in HPC: Techniques, Side Effects, and Use Abstract: Optimizing and tailoring an HPC code to a given system and problem requires a good understanding of code's ha... Continue

It is our pleasure to announce a retake of the popular three-day course "Modern C++ Software design" by Dr. Klaus Iglberger. This course is made possible by KONWIHR and NHR@FAU. It will be conducted online via Zoom. Date and time September 29 - October 1, 2021, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Participati... Continue

It is our pleasure to announce the third NHR@FAU Newsletter. The newsletter is a publication that summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Beyond events, every newsletter highlights special or noteworthy achievements by NHR scientis... Continue

In light of our new cluster procurement for NHR@FAU, we ran several benchmarks on both an Intel Xeon "Ice Lake" Platinum 8360Y node (2x 36 cores + SMT) and different NVIDIA GPUs to determine the optimal hardware configuration for our users. For the corresponding host CPUs of the GPUs, please visit o... Continue

On July 27, 2021 we presented an open webinar with lectures and demos/hands-on for the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, showcasing the tools likwid-topology, likwid-pin, likwid-perfctr, and OSACA for analyzing the performance of SpMV on the A64FX processor with... Continue

We are happy to announce a talk by Sebastian Oeste (Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen (ZIH) TU Dresden) in the NHR PerfLab seminar. Title: Exclusive file systems for power users with BeeGFS and network NVMe storage Abstract: On most HPC systems, the parallel file sys... Continue

We are thrilled to announce that two NHR@FAU students have just been awarded the first and second prize in the ISC 2021 Digital PhD Forum: 1st place for the contribution “Noise-driven Cluster-level Performance Modelling and Engineering” by Ayesha Afzal 2nd place for the contribution “The Bes... Continue

It is our pleasure to announce the second NHR@FAU Newsletter. The newsletter is a publication that summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Beyond events, every newsletter will highlight special or noteworthy achievements by NHR sci... Continue

Many of our users at FAU are aware that it is possible to allocate more than one GPU on a TinyGPU node. The reason behind running a calculation on more than one GPU is quite simply a hope for increased performance, since gathering the appropriate amount of data for research is often time consuming. ... Continue

We are happy to announce a major release LIKWID 5.2.0. Continue