Artificial neural networks are becoming increasingly large and complex – and therefore require more and more energy for training with data. A research team led by Felix Dietrich, Professor of Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is working on replacing training steps with mathematical methods. This reduces power consumption and helps to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) works…
HPC Café on May 13: LLM Prompting for Passion: Free Yourself from the Busywork
Our next HPC Café will take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event, again evolving around the topic of AI. This time, our NHR@FAU AI support member Sebastian Wind will give you an overview of prompt strategies. We invite you to visit us at NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing, or join via Zoom.
This month’s HPC Café on April 8 is all about BayernKI
NHR@FAUs next HPC Café will take place on April 8 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 NHR@FAU to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. CEST with an open coffee chat, and at 4:30 p.m., we will start the presentation.
NHR PerfLab Seminar: The Stunning Success Story of Machine Learning for Weather Prediction
The NHR PerfLab Seminars are a collaborative talk series held at the NHR@FAU evolving around performance engineering, code analysis, HPC computer architectures, and tools. The upcoming talk by our guest Prof…
Monthly HPC Café Goes AI (March 11, hybrid)
NHR@FAUs next HPC Café will take place on March 11 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 visit us to enjoy coffee, cake, and computing. The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee chat, and at 4:30 p.m…
AI Day at the University of Bayreuth
On February 7, 2025, the AI Day took place at the University of Bayreuth – an inspiring event with exciting lectures, practical presentations and lively discussions about artificial intelligence and data science. Scientists and experts from business and research came together to discuss current developments, use cases and challenges in this dynamic field.
“Helma” already records massive workload
Early access to the new “Helma” AI cluster at NHR@FAU is in progress and already recording high usage and massive workloads on the system. The first half of the supercomputer is currently in an intense testing phase and will go into open access in the first half of 2025. As the monitoring visualizes, the capacities of the system were almost fully used on January 7…
“Blue Lion”: HPE to build next supercomputer at LRZ
The new supercomputer “Blue Lion” is part of the German national HPC infrastructure of the Gauss Center for Supercomputing and will serve a wide range of research projects, combining classic simulations with artificial intelligence. Please read the press release of HPE. Blue Lion is scheduled to go live in early 2027 and deliver 30X faster performance…
AI technology to fight Online Harassment faster
With the CS-2 system from Cerebras, AI models for the recognition of hate speech on social media platforms can be trained faster, and offensive texts can be detected more effectively. This is shown by a study from the LRZ that compares different AI accelerator systems. Identifying hate speech and removing it from the digital world: This is a task…
Early Access to Cluster “Helma” has started
The quieter days are just around the corner, but for the initial computing nodes of the Cluster Helma, work is just getting started: The first friendly users have now been given early access to the first part of the NHR@FAU high-performance computer, which is mainly intended to support AI research.









