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Helma is named after Wilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758), co-founder of the University of Erlangen in 1743 (Image: Giulia Iannicelli, FAU)
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NHR@FAU GPU cluster “Helma” hits #51 in the 65th Top500 list

The 65th Top500 list was released today at the ISC High Performance 2025 Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The list ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world using the “High Performance LINPACK” benchmark.

Helma, NHR@FAU’s GPU supercomputer, was recently expanded with another 96 nodes for a total of 768 H100 and H200 GPUs. We are thrilled to announce that Helma now ranks 51st in the current list, with a…

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First BayernKI Q&A Session

Current and future users of BayernKI resources for science can join the first BayernKI Q&A Session!

We are pleased to invite you to our first BayernKI Q&A Session, jointly organized by NHR@FAU and LRZ. It takes place on Wednesday, June 4 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. This online session will recur on the first Wednesday of every month, providing a regular opportunity…

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Replacing AI training with Math Methods

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…

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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…