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At JuliaCon 2022 last week, Carsten Bauer from PC2 Paderborn gave a great talk on using hardware performance counters in Julia programs with LIKWID.jl, the Julia wrapper for the LIKWID library. With LIKWID.jl, you can leverage the full power of the LIKWID library, first and foremost counting perform...

Valued Tier3 HPC users of NHR@FAU, as briefly announced in the HPC Cafe in June, we now started with switching from Woody with Ubuntu 18.04 and Torque to Woody-NG ("Woody Next Generation") with AlmaLinux8 as operating system and Slurm as batch system. Woody-NG uses the same operating system as the...

We are happy to host the first NHR monitoring workshop. The topic of the workshop is job-specific performance monitoring on HPC clusters. Everyone interested in this topic is invited. This is a F2F event with a mix of invited talks, discussion sessions, and hands-on demos.  We will offer the option ...

The next HPC Café takes place as a hybrid event (in person + Zoom) on Tuesday, July 12, at 4 p.m. The HPC Café is an opportunity to get to know each other and to stay up to speed with current developments at NHR@FAU. After a general Q&A phase, the focus will be put on advanced or application-...

The NHR Alliance offers PhD scholarships at each of its nine centers. A scholarship runs for three years. If you have a master's degree in computer science, mathematics, the natural or engineering sciences, or an equivalent degree and are interested in High Performance Computing, this fellowship pro...

Computing Crossroads is a research initiative with the intention of providing a computing perspective across a wide variety of fields, and conversely, the huge amount of value brought to this field by those coming from areas traditionally considered unrelated. The organization aims to expose the div...

The newly established NHR Graduate School of the NHR Alliance (NHR-Verein e.V.) offers PhD scholarships to applicants from Germany, Europe, and all over the world. From June 13-17, the first batch of eight newly minted PhD students took part in the first NHR Graduate School course week at the Zuse I...

The eighth 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. These are the current topics: Official Application Process for NHR@FAU Resources •  Welcome Dr. Shahzad...

On June 6, 2022, Faisal Shahzad successfully defended his PhD thesis. Faisal worked for several years in our team. After presenting his work on “Efficient Application-level Fault Tolerance Methods for Large Scale HPC Applications” to the PhD committee and broader audience, the good news were announc...

Speaker: Prof. Dr. ir. Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente, Netherlands Title: Parallel Graph Processing: a Killer App for Performance Modeling Date and time: Tuesday, June 21, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Slides https://youtu.be/2ltdhzptWq0 Abstract: Graph processing workloads are increasing i...