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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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“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…
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CAIDAS publishes first all-German large language model “LLäMmlein”

We are presenting a milestone for German-language large language models: At the University of Würzburg (JMU) the first all-German large-scale language model has been created and trained at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) with resources support…
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First part of the Bayern-KI-Cluster “Helma” at NHR@FAU installed

The NHR@FAU is pleased to announce that the first four racks of the brand new BayernKI-Cluster “Helma” have arrived in the “Kältezentrale” at the south campus of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The cluster was delivered and installed by MEGWARE from Chemnitz, Germany…
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