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ISC 2020, conducted as a digital event, was a particular success for our group. Two papers were accepted for the conference: C. L. Alappat, J. Hofmann, G. Hager, H. Fehske, A. R. Bishop, and G. Wellein: Understanding HPC Benchmark Performance on Intel Broadwell and Cascade Lake Processors. DOI ...

MachineState is a python3 module and CLI application for documenting and comparing settings known to affect application performance: e.g., CPU/Uncore frequencies, hardware prefetchers, memory capacity, but also OS and software settings like NUMA balancing, writeback workqueues, scheduling, or the ve...

The participation of “Team SegFAUlt” at the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in the scope of the ISC’20 began as usual; finding interested students and forming a team had started in October 2019 already. Luckily, the team's proposal was accepted and the selection of the team for participation in th...

It is our pleasure to announce an online retake of the successful short course "Advanced C++ with Focus on Software Engineering." The course is made possible via the friendly support by KONWIHR, the "Competence Network for Scientific High Performance Computing in Bavaria." Please see below for an...

The Euro-Par conference is a well-established venue for presenting and discussing research on parallel computing in Europe. In association with the Euro-Par 2020 conference, which takes place from August 24-28 in Warsaw, Poland, the workshop "PMACS - Performance Monitoring and Analysis of Cluster Sy...

"Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems" is the annual course provided by LRZ and RRZE, giving students and scientists a solid introduction to Processor and HPC system architectures Code development and basic tools Basic code optimizations Basics and limitations of paralleliz...

The HPC Campustreffen for Winter 2019/2020 will take place on Thursday, January 16th starting 15 o’clock (c.t.) in the seminar room 2.049 on the 2nd floor  of RRZE, Martensstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen . The HPC Campustreffen is the assembly of all users of FAU's HPC facilities at RRZE. The agenda wi...

Our popular PRACE course on "Node-Level Performance Engineering" will take place on December 3-4, 2019 at LRZ Garching. This course covers performance engineering approaches on the compute node level. Even application developers who are fluent in OpenMP and MPI often lack a good grasp of how much...

Our paper "Automatic Throughput and Critical Path Analysis of x86 and ARM Assembly Kernels" has just won the "Best Late-Breaking Paper Award" at the 10th Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS19), a renowned workshop co-located with t...

We are happy to announce the release of a new version of LIKWID. Until now, LIKWID mainly focused on x86 processors. The new version 5 adds support for ARM and POWER processors as well as Nvidia GPUs.