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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 you’d like to address this time…

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Join the EuroCC2 AI Hackathon in October – Registration is open!

In October 2025, you can look forward to an intensitive hackathon that focuses specifically on the topic of AI: The EuroCC2 AI Hackathon, is jointly organized by NVIDIA, the OpenACC organization and the EuroCC National Competence Centres of Austria, Germany, and Poland, including BayernKI co-host Leibniz Supercomputing Centre. The Event takes place from from October 14 to 23…

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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…

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Invitation to BayernKI Q&A Session (July 2, online)

The first Wednesday of the month is coming up, and we are pleased to invite you to our second BayernKI Q&A Session, jointly organized by NHR@FAU and LRZ. This online session provides a regular opportunity for current and future users of our AI infrastructure to discuss your questions and receive support. If there are specific topics or questions you would like to discuss in the session, you can let us know in advance via the following form…

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BayernKI visiting Workshop “AI infrastructure for researchers in Bavaria”

Bavaria is an AI hotspot, but AI research needs reliable access to infrastructure, and that’s where BayernKI enters the stage. This week the NHR@FAU joined the workshop “AI infrastructure for researchers in Bavaria” at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (THA). The aim of the event was to provide information about AI infrastructure in Bavaria, to identify the needs of AI researchers and to support…

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Gauss Centre for Supercomputing offering online info event on AI project calls

For those with larger AI projects that are not fully covered by the basic compute time provided by BayernKI, there is another option: A new call for projects on the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing’s (GCS’s) systems will open soon. To support this, the AI Support teams from FZJ/JSC, LRZ, and HLRS are organizing an info event for scientists interested in AI-related projects on the GCS supercomputers, including…

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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…