The next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing.
The event starts at 4:00 p.m. CET with a...
The ClusterCockpit instance on http://monitoring.nhr.fau.de will move to a new RAID today. Therefore the instance will be down for maintenance until possibly late evening today (2026-01-14).
Topic: From Picojoules to Gigawatt-hours: Energy-to-Completion and GPU DVFS for LLM Workloads
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Holger Fröning (Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI), Heidelberg University)
Date and time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. CET
Location: Seminar Room 2.049 (RRZE) an...
Topic: Scaling and accelerating LLM trainings
Speaker: Andrea Pilzer, Ph.D. (NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Italy)
Date and time: Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. CET
Slides
Abstract:
In this talk, we explore scaling laws to understand the rationale behind large-scale training. W...
At last year’s Supercomputing 25 conference, which was held in St. Louis, USA, FAU once again successfully participated in person in the Indy Student Cluster Competition (IndySCC 25) with its student team FAUltier. In preparation, the team had to combine multiple resources from the Jetstream2 Cloud ...
