December 2024 – BayernKI

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13/12/2024

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“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…

10/12/2024

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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…

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

06/12/2024

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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.