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In a collaboration with NHR@FAU, the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies (LMQ) is happy to announce an invited talk this Thursday, May 16, 2:00-3:00 p.m. at the Physikum in Hörsaal F, entitled "Scientific Applications of Quantum Annealer Hardware." The talk will be held by Alejand...

On Sunday, May 12, the brand-new tutorial “Performance Engineering for Linear Solvers” will be presented at ISC High Performance in Hamburg by Christie Alappat (still a PhD student at NHR@FAU but now working for Intel), Jonas Thies (TU Delft), Hartwig Anzt (TU München Campus Heilbronn), and Georg Ha...

Topic:  Bridging Domain Science and HPC with Julia Speaker: Dr. Carsten Bauer, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) Slides https://youtu.be/ACqCny0L9V8 Abstract:  Julia is a modern programming language that is particularly well suited for numerical computing. Its rich sci...

From March 11 to April 12, 2024, pharmacy students in their 3rd and 4th years completed their mandatory internship ("Wahlpflichtpraktikum", WPP), which enables them to conduct their own research projects. The course was led by Eduard Neu, who is currently pursuing a PhD degree with Prof. Dr. Peter G...

One of our file servers experiences extremely high load since March 27. This is presumably caused by a user application with detrimental file access patterns, bringing the server to is knees. Unfortunately, this currently affects all users on all clusters and frontends; normal work is all but imposs...

The 19th 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: Upcoming HPC Cafes in April and May • Increase Your AI Performance by up to 130% • NHR Conferenc...

The next HPC Café takes place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 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 RRZE to have coffee and cake. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with coffee, cake, and open chat. At ...

We are happy to announce that the NHR@FAU JupyterHub server (accessible via the HPC Portal) now provides options to start sessions for Matlab, R-Studio, and the Whisper transcription web service for our Tier-3 customers (i.e., FAU staff and students, plus the FAU service coverage area). Several j...

There will be a scheduled downtime of our HPC systems: Monday, March 11, from 06:50 to 16:00, affecting ONLY Fritz Wednesday, March 20, from 00:00 to end of the day, affecting ALL our clusters including frontends and fileservers For the March 20 downtime: Reason is general maintenan...

Among 25 other teams out of 300 applications from universities worldwide, the FAU has been selected to compete in the ASC Student Supercomputing Challenge Finals, set for April 9-13, 2024 at Shanghai University. The ASC Student Supercomputing Challenge is one of the three Student Cluster Competit...