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We wish our customers, collaborators, associates, and all of the individuals who helped establish and run the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center a very merry Christmas, peaceful holidays, and a happy new year 2022! The last twelve months have been quite a ride, but we are looking fo...

We are happy to announce that our proposal for a SIAM PP22 Minisymposium was accepted. The SIAM Parallel Processing conference series is unique in its emphasis on the intersection between high performance scientific computing and scalable algorithms, architectures, and software. The conference provi...

The fifth NHR@FAU Newsletter is now available. The newsletter is a publication that summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. Besides news, every newsletter has an FAQ corner and highlights special or noteworthy achievements by NHR s...

We are happy to release a new bugfix release of the LIKWID toolsuite (version 5.2.1). Add support for Intel Rocketlake and AMD Zen3 variant (Family 19, Model 0x50) Fix for perf_event multiplexing (important!) Fix for potential deadlock in MarkerAPI (thx @jenny-cheung) Build and runtime...

Since June 2020, the Top500 list is led by the supercomputer Fugaku, which comprises over 7.5 million Fujitsu A64FX cores. Besides their raw computational power, the cores are equipped with features that support parallel execution on the systems: hardware barrier, sector cache (cache partitioning), ...

Speaker:  Dr. John D. McCalpin (Texas Advanced Computing Center), also known as "Dr. Bandwidth," of STREAM fame Title: Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems - 2021 Update Date & time: Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CET Slides https://youtu.be/jkwD48m...

FAU is participating in the first European Master's degree programme in high performance computing A European consortium including FAU aims to develop a pan-European pilot Master’s degree programme for high performance computing (HPC). As of winter semester 2022/23, the partners hope to offer cours...

Speakers: Daniel Jünger and Prof. Bertil Schmidt (University of Mainz) Title: General-purpose GPU Hashing Data Structures and their Application in Accelerated Genomics Date and time: Tuesday, November 23, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/dcRCS74U4EQ Abstract: A broad variety...

Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Soysal (Karlsruhe Institute of technology) Title: On-demand file systems: production use, use cases and lessons learned Date and time: Tuesday, November 2, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/VTbda18wOwU Abstract: On many HPC systems, the parallel file system ...

The fourth NHR@FAU Newsletter is now available. 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 scientists and an FAQ...