“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…
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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…
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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…

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…