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Close-up of one of the racks in the Helma Cluster.

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.

New NHR@FAU cluster “Helma” hits rank #79 in Top500 list

The 64th Top500 list was released today at the SC24 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world according to the “High Performance LINPACK” benchmark, which solves a large, dense system of linear equations.

Two cartoon-style sheep, one of which is wearing a scarf. In the background is the silhouette of a Bavarian-style town.

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…

A Megware employee delivers components of the new Helma cluster on a handcart.

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…

Cerebras-Workshop showing potential for AI projects and HPC applications

A face-to-face workshop at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre demonstrated the potential of Cerebras Systems’s CS-2 system for science and research: In addition to training large language models and pattern recognition, it can also accelerate high-performance computing applications. New technologies arouse…

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