Monthly HPC Café
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 include, e.g., 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.
Good news: There will be free coffee and cake again after more than two years of abstinence!
Next event: Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
Focus topic: The KONWIHR program: overview and funding opportunities
Location (hybrid event): RRZE seminar room 2.049 and Zoom https://fau.zoom.us/j/69439931483
Contact address for inquires: hpc-support@fau.de
Next introduction for beginners (online): Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: Using the HPC clusters at NHR@FAU
Location: https://fau.zoom.us/j/63416831557
Current slides: HPC in a nutshell
Material from past events:
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 (online)
- Introduction to the NHR@FAU HPC Portal and the ClusterCockpit monitoring system
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 (hybrid)
- Using the Zenodo document and data repository (invited talk by Dr. Jürgen Rohrwild, FAU University Library)
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 (hybrid)
- NHR@FAU User Forum (invited top users talked about their experience with compute clusters at NHR@FAU)
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 (hybrid)
- Modern Fortran (invited talk by Dr. Reinhold Bader, LRZ Garching)
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 (hybrid)
- News from NHR@FAU—cluster configurations, resource monitoring
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 (First in-person HPC Café after more than two years)
- Job monitoring for end users—ClusterCockpit and PyTorch Profiling at work
- Slides: Cluster Cockpit, PyTorch Profiling
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
- The new clusters at NHR@FAU—hardware, access, application process
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
- From C++98 to C++11/14/17
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
- SLURM: Basics, best practices, advanced usage
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
- GROMACS – Best practices
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
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
- Python beyond the basics: Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
- Effective Editing With Vim
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
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
- Build systems and “Make”
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
- “Continuous x” (Cx) for HPC Systems (guest talk by Jennifer Buchmüller and Terry Cojean, KIT)
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- Julia in HPC (guest talk by Valentin Churavy, MIT CSAIL Julia Lab, MIT)
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
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
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Tuesday, August 11th 2020 and September 8th 2020
- HPC in a nutshell; see the slides posted on https://hpc.fau.de/systems-services/hpc-user-training/
Tuesday, July 14th 2020
- Using the LIKWID tool suite
- Using Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector (ITAC)
- Using the Arm DDT debugger
Tuesday, June 9th 2020
Tuesday, May 12th 2020
Tuesday, April 14th 2020
Tuesday, March 10th 2020
- Modules and Software installation (Thomas Gruber, RRZE)
Tuesday, February 11th 2020
- Application Labs at LRZ (Gerald Mathias, LRZ)
Tuesday, January 14th 2020
Tuesday, December 10th 2019
- no slides but visit to RRZE’s server room
Tuesday, November 12th 2019
- How to assess the scalability of your parallel job and how many cores/nodes you should use
- How to interpret the hardware monitoring data
Tuesday, October 8th 2019
- see the HPC-Nutshell slides posted on systems-services/hpc-user-training/
Tuesday, September 10th 2019
- no slides – first getting to know each other