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Since about 6:00 p.m. today, the parallel filesystem ($FASTTMP) is partially down. Jobs on Fritz, Alex, and Helma may be affected. We are working on solving the issue and apologize for the incovenience. Update : Lustre is fully available again.  

The Fritz and Helma clusters are down today (May 14) because of urgent maintenance of the water cooling system. We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you updated about the status. Update About half of the Fritz cluster nodes are up and running again. Update The Fritz and Helma clu...

The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. 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. CEST with an open ...

There will be scheduled downtime of our Tier-3-clusters TinyGPU and TinyFat, including the frontend tinyx and special machines like memoryhog, starting on Wednesday, May 7 at 09:00 and lasting at least the whole day. Reason for the downtime is an OS update. Update 17:00: the frontend tin...

We had to perform an emergency shutdown for the clusters Fritz and Helma today (Wednesday, April 16) at around 13:30, after the cold water supply for these clusters failed at around 13:10. All jobs running at that time were terminated (ungently). Update 16.04. 15:50: First analysis showed that a ...

On Apr 8, 2025, all NHR Graduate School scholars in Erlangen participated in an in-person joint seminar with the local liaison scientists team. The goal was to get to know each other and to foster interaction and collaboration. In his introductory note, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, head of NHR@FAU, emphas...

Speaker: Sunita Chandrasekaran, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware Date and time: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Abstract  With the rapid advancements in the computer architecture space, the migration of l...

From March 31 to April 2, 2025, the Chemikum hosted the conference “Molecular Modelling Workshop” (MMWS) in its 37th year. Organized again by the Computer Chemistry Center (CCC) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU), these three days saw presentations of all facets from the still growing fiel...

Speaker: Johannes Partzsch, TU Dresden Date and time: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CEST Zoom: https://go-nhr.de/perflab-seminar Slides https://youtu.be/8UvnDcL212c Abstract Neuromorphic computing has received interest recently for its potential to counteract the ever-increasing...

Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is now "Intel-ready" The Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer (OSACA) is a tool that can analyze assembly code and produce a best-case runtime prediction assuming that the data is in the L1 cache. Its analysis is based on throughput and latency of ...