Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU)

Things are starting to get exciting for our Student Cluster Competition team at the ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg! 💪 Last week, some members of the SCC team FAUSION received the hardware that will support them at the competition in June from their partners MEGWARE. They were given three nodes with four NVIDIA H200 NVL GPUs each. We have already introduced the joint team, formed by a group of students from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and USI Università della Svizzera italiana, in a previous news item. Read more about it here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dewRvcW6 Many thanks to MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH for their support and all the best for our team at ISC in June! 🍀 #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #HPCCommunity #FAUErlangen #StudentClusterCompetition #TechInnovation

🧠 Hardware inspired by the human brain... what are the advantages? Tomorrow we welcome Dr. Johannes Partzsch from the Technical University of Dresden to our online PerfLab Seminar to talk about the topic: "Neuromorphic Hardware – A System Perspective." Join the talk on Tuesday, April 15, at 2:00 p.m. CEST on key principles of neuromorphic hardware systems, their practicality and the SpiNNaker2 system currently deployed at TU Dresden as an example. Find out more about the topic and the Zoom link here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dWesD-Gn p.s. The HPC center NHR@TUD at the Technische Universität Dresden is also a partner in the NHR-Verein, like ourselves! 👍  #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #HPCCommunity #FAUErlangen #ComputerScience #StemEducation #MINTBildung #TechTalk #TechEducation #OnlineSeminar #PerfLab

🎉A warm welcome to our fellows of the fourth cohort 🎉 Eight fellows have started their scholarship from the NHR Association this week at one of the following NHR centers: NHR@FAU, NHR@Göttingen, NHR4CES@RWTH, NHR@TUD, NHR4CES@TUDa, NHR@ZIB. You are now part of a network of excellent researchers, mentors, and fellow students. Within the next three years, you will have the opportunity to forge new paths, challenge existing boundaries, and transform ideas into groundbreaking research. We extend our best wishes for your success and start of your exciting career in the field of High-Performance Computing. Your NHR Graduate School Team More information about NHR Graduate School: https://lnkd.in/e2s2K4YN #NHRVerein #Stipendium #Scholarship #NHRGraduateSchool #HPC #HighPerformanceComputing

🧬The Molecular Modeling Workshop (MMWS) 2025 was very insightful with the NHR@FAU being closely involved! Taking place from March 31 to April 2, the Chemikum of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg hosted the MMWS for the 37th time with poster presentations, talks and engaged discussions on the field of molecular modeling in various facets. These included cheminoformatics, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, physics, biology and more. Among other things, the NHR@FAU provided a lecture by Anna Kahler on benchmarking and tuning the molecular dynamics package Gromacs on our local systems: https://lnkd.in/dJuqgxzC Read more about the recent event in our newspost ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dNDQpZ49 #NHR #NHRFAU #FAUErlangen #STEMEducation #InnovationInScience #MINTBildung #TechEducation #MolecularModeling #HPC #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing

Come along to a special HPC Café tomorrow! ☕ This time our café is all about BayernKI, the supporting infrastructure for AI research in Bavaria, provided by Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and NHR@FAU. Starting at 4:00 p.m. CEST, there will be coffee and cake, and from 4:30 p.m. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein will talk about the current implementation of BayernKI, its available services, and its organizational structure. Stop by or join via zoom ➡️ https://lnkd.in/duTw-g9G #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #HPCCommunity #FAUErlangen #BayernKI #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #TechTalk #OnlineSeminar #HPCCafé

🐣 This is no April Fool's joke: Our next PerfLab seminar takes place tomorrow! The online seminar starts at 2:00 p.m. CEST with a captivating talk by Catherine Schuman on the topic "Neuromorphic Computing from the Computer Science Perspective – Algorithms and Applications." The seminar will provide an overview of the field of neuromorphic computing, introduce spiking neural networks, describe some of the most common algorithms, and cover some real-world applications. Interested? Join in via Zoom - you can find further information and the link at our news post ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dw2QihSw #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #HPCCommunity #FAUErlangen #ComputerScience #StemEducation #MINTBildung #TechTalk #TechEducation #OnlineSeminar #PerfLab

🚀 Bayern fördert generative KI mit 30 Millionen Euro! 🧠 Der bayerische Wirtschaftsminister Hubert Aiwanger war heute zu Gast am #FraunhoferIIS, um zwei Förderbescheide in Höhe von je ca. 15 Mio. € für die Forschung an generativen KI-Modellen in der digitalen Signalverarbeitung zu überreichen. Rund die Hälfte des Geld stammt dabei von dem Bayerischen #EFRE-Programm der Europäischen Union. Die Mittel fließen neben dem Fraunhofer IIS an das Fraunhofer AISEC, das Fraunhofer IKS und die Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) und werden teilweise mit Fördergeldern aus dem Bayerischen EFRE-Programm finanziert. 💡 Ziel: Die Entwicklung und Beherrschung von digitaler Signalverarbeitung mittels generativer KI, die auf selbst-entwickelten Modellen basiert und mit verifizierten Daten trainiert wird. 🖥️ Technologie: Am Zentrum für Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen (NHR@FAU) werden dafür über 300 GPUs bereitgestellt, um komplexe KI-Modelle in Rekordzeit zu trainieren. 🤝 Zusammenarbeit: Gemeinsam bringen die kooperierenden bayerischen Forschungsinstitutionen ihre jeweiligen Kompetenzen ein, um performante, effiziente und sichere KI-Anwendungen für die Industrie in Bayern, Deutschland und Europa zu schaffen. Detaillierte Informationen erhalten Sie in unserer Pressemitteilung: https://lnkd.in/dgkg3RjK

📣 Guests at the NHR@FAU: Last week, a group of interested young trainees from Siemens Energy Professional Education came to visit us at the NHR@FAU. Our researcher, Dr. Johannes Veh, gave them an educational tour of the location, an insight into the IT collection and our NHR facilities, as well as a glimpse into our server room. Thank you for your interest, and we hope you were able to gain some valuable insights! p.s. 🎧 For anyone who is wondering and has never entered a server room before: The ear protection you see in the picture is extremely useful, because it is not only warm in there, but also very noisy! #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #FAUErlangen #TechEducation #Edu4Energy #MINTBildung #StemEducation

Great to see a first glimpse of our future home 👏 Special thanks to RKW Architektur, the great visualization, the project management and everyone involved in this project!

⛅ This time, our hybrid PerfLab Seminar is all about the weather forecasts and what AI may have to do with it! The upcoming talk by our guest Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig takes place on March 18, 2:00 p.m. CET and has the intriguing title "The Stunning Success Story of Machine Learning for Weather Prediction". So come along tomorrow or take part via Zoom! You can find more information under this link ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dvGhH2SE #NHR #NHRFAU #Supercomputing #HighPerformanceComputing #HPC #FAUErlangen #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechTalk #TechEducation #OnlineSeminar #PerfLab