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With a call for donations at its Christmas party, the NHR@FAU collected money for the Erlanger Tafel. Yesterday, 2^8 = 256 Euros (a very satisfying amount, as anyone in the computer business can acknowledge) could be handed over to the head of the social services of the Diakonie Erlangen, Elke Bollm...

On December 16, Julian Hammer successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Design and Implementation of an Automated Performance Modeling Toolkit for Regular Loop Kernels.” Prof. Dietmar Fey, the head of the PhD committee, announced the good news after Julian had presented the main results of his w...

The eleventh NHR@FAU Newsletter is available. This publication summarizes recent and upcoming events in and around the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center. These are the current topics: Fritz & Alex climb up in Top500 list • Hybrid NHR PerfLab Seminar: Michael Hartmann on q...

We are happy to announce the next NHR PerfLab Seminar, which will take place as a hybrid event. There will be coffee and cake for all in-person attendees. Speaker: Michael Hartmann, Professor of Theoretical Physics at FAU Title: Quantum Computing Today and Tomorrow Date and time: Tuesday, Decem...

Open Scientific Calls for the Contributed Program of ISC 2023 The ISC Conference Program Management has started inviting papers for the contributed program in 2023. To view more information and the the contact address, please click on the button below. The ISC research paper sessions provide wor...

This course covers an introduction into the molecular dynamics engine GROMACS, including fundamental commands and applications. Over five days, the participants will learn how to prepare and run simulations of biomolecular systems (e.g. including membranes and proteins) at an atomistic and coars...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, December 13, at 4 p.m. as a hybrid event (in person + Zoom). We invite you to come to RRZE's seminar room 2.049 to have coffee and cake, and as always, there will also be plenty of time to get in touch with your favorite HPC group. The monthly HPC Café is...

At the SC22 conference last week in Dallas, TX, student teams from all over the world took part in the Student Cluster Competition, a contest that requires operating an HPC system and running a selection of high-performance applications as fast as possible under a strict power constraint. The FAU te...

The Atomistic Simulation Center (ASC), a consortium formed by the NHR centers in Berlin, Paderborn, and Erlangen, cordially invites to attend this year's Symposium, taking place online on November 28–29, 2022. After a successful Inauguration Symposium 2021, which celebrated the initiation of the ...

Last week at the Supercomputing (SC22) Conference in Dallas, Texas, the updated list of the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world was released. The "Top500" is published twice a year at the leading conferences in the field: SC in the USA and ISC High Performance in Germany. Systems are ranked acco...