Monthly HPC Cafe

The HPC Café complements our established contact channels and training offerings. Every second Tuesday of the month this is an opportunity to get to know each other.

We always start with a short Q&A session, where you can ask and discuss anything HPC related, from running job scripts to performance issues.
Every month, we will also focus on a specific topic, either as a short talk or a discussion. These can, e.g., include advanced usage, workflow optimizations, or application-specific issues.
A separate event on the day after the HPC Café is especially dedicated to new users and HPC beginners. Each month, we offer a short introduction on using the HPC systems at RRZE, including an overview of HPC clusters, how to connect to the systems, how to use the batch system, and more.

The HPC Café is also an informal platform to give feedback or talk about general requests. We look forward to meeting you and hope for lively participation.

One more reason for coming: There will be free coffee and cake (hopefully again soon)!

Next event: Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 4 p.m.

Focus topic: The new clusters at NHR@FAU – hardware, access, application process

Duration: 1-2 hours

Location (until further notice – online session with audio only + screen sharing): https://fau.zoom.us/j/69439931483

Contact address for inquires: hpc-support@fau.de

Next introduction for beginners: Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 4 p.m.

Location: https://fau.zoom.us/j/63416831557

Current slides: HPC in a nutshell

Material from past events:

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

From C++98 to C++11/14/17
- Slides
- Video recording at FAU.tv Video recording at YT

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

SLURM: Basics, best practices, advanced usage
- Slides
- Video recording at FAU.tv

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

GROMACS – Best practices
- Slides
- Video recording at FAU.tv – Video recording at YT

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

HPC Cafe für Kontaktpersonen (Liaisons)
- Slides (English)
- Video recording at FAU.tv (German) (IdM login required)

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Using File Systems Properly
- Slides
- Video recording at FAU.tv

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Python beyond the basics: Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib
- GitHub repository with notebook and examples
- Video recording at FAU.tv

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Effective Editing With Vim
- Slides
- Video recording at FAU.tv – Video recording at YT

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Howto on using the Cx services based on the RRZE gitlab instances

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

General Q&A, some advice on using (and not misusing) the file systems, current state of NHR system installation

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

summer break; only the usual introduction for beginners

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Current status NHR@FAU resources and KONWIHR projects
- Slides NHR@FAU – Slides KONWIHR

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Build systems and “Make”
- Video recording Slides

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

“Continuous x” (Cx) for HPC Systems (guest talk by Jennifer Buchmüller and Terry Cojean, KIT)
- Video recording

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Julia in HPC (guest talk by Valentin Churavy, MIT CSAIL Julia Lab, MIT)
- Video recording

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Git part 2: advanced features and workflows
- Video recording

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Git: basics, common workflows, and tips and tricks
- Video recording

Tuesday, January 12, 2021: Focus topic: AI-assisted research at FAU – Four FAU researchers give short talks about how their projects benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and what resources they require for it.

Changes to expect for TinyGPU in 2021 and other news
Peter Uhrig: “HPC workflows for big data and machine learning applications”
Benedikt Lorch: “Deep learning in the HPC environment Computing demands for research in multimedia forensics”
Harald Köstler: “Deep learning for Computational Fluid Dynamics”
Thorsten Glüsenkamp: “AI research in astroparticle physics at ECAP”

Tuesday, December 8, 2020