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28/10/2025
Allgemein

BayernKI Q&A Session (November 5, online via Zoom)

November is close and so is the first Wednesday of the month: As usual we invite you to join our BayernKI Q&A Session, a monthly event that addresses all your questions about BayernKI in science, jointly hosted by NHR@FAU and LRZ. In this session, we want to we want to get our current and future users of our AI infrastructure in touch with the support team, to provide them with helpful solutions to their problems and tips from our experts. Would you like to submit questions in advance?

01/10/2025
Allgemein

BayernKI Q&A Session (October 1, online via Zoom)

Every first Wednesday of the month, we invite you to join the BayernKI Q&A Session, a regular event where you can ask your questions about BayernKI in science. Jointly hosted by NHR@FAU and LRZ, the session connects current and future users of our AI infrastructure with our experts, offering practical tips, insights, and support. If you’d like to submit your questions in advance…

Detailaufnahme Cerebras CS-2 System am LRZ.
12/09/2025
AI Research Allgemein LRZ

LRZ AI Team Develops 10B Language Model

Bavarian, German and English – in one large language model: To enable AI to understand Bavarian, the LRZ developed and trained an own language model.

Do-you want to translate “Hock di hera, samma mera”* into German or English? Now there’s Llama-GENBA-10B. The trilingual language model is based on Meta’s Large Language Model (LLM) Llama, version 3.1-8B, and was trained by researchers at LRZ and Cerebras Systems with 10 billion parameters using a dataset of 164 billion tokens…

31/07/2025
Allgemein Event Announcement LRZ NHR@FAU

BayernKI Q&A Session (August 6, online via Zoom)

Next week marks the first Wednesday in August, and we’re pleased to invite you once again to the BayernKI Q&A session, your opportunity to ask questions related to BayernKI in science. This regular meet-up, jointly hosted by NHR@FAU and LRZ, offers current and future users of our AI infrastructure a chance to connect with experts, ask questions, and receive support. If there are particular questions…

22/07/2025
Allgemein Hardware LRZ

Photonic computer for AI use cases at LRZ

At LRZ in Garching, a photonic computer for AI use cases was put into operation in an HPC environment for the first time worldwide. The Native Processing Server (NPS) from German start-up Q.ANT uses light instead of electrons for computing and therefore does not require energy-intensive cooling. Through parallel processing at different wavelengths, the technology promises high computing power combined with high energy-efficiency…

13/07/2025
Allgemein Hardware LRZ

LRZ: Blue Lion based on Vera Rubin chip architecture

LRZ is set to deploy the Blue Lion supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA’s upcoming Vera Rubin architecture, as NVIDIA announced during ISC in June 2025. This system combines the Rubin GPU and Vera CPU, forming a superchip designed for real-time, large-scale scientific computing. Blue Lion aims to deliver approximately 30 times the performance of its predecessor, SuperMUC-NG, facilitating advanced research in areas like climate modeling, physics, and AI…

08/07/2025
LLMs Training

LLM meets finance at the Nürnberg Digital Festival

The Nürnberg Digital Festival is an annual event that took place from June 30 to July 9 with several events, talks, and get-togethers in and around Nuremberg, all focusing on the topic of digitization.

The NHR@FAU was also involved with AI Support Team member Sebastian Wind hosting a workshop on “Training LLMs for German tax consultancy with HPC infrastructure”,  including hands-on elements…

08/07/2025
Allgemein Hardware LRZ

EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen visits AI Factory HammerHAI

On July 7, 2025, Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, visited the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) as part of her tour of European “AI factories” established by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. The visit spotlighted HammerHAI, Germany’s first AI factory—launched in December 2024 and coordinated by HLRS along with partners such as the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre…