Your infrastructure for AI research in Bavaria
BayernKI is the central infrastructure of the State of Bavaria to advance academic AI research. It provides cutting-edge AI systems, comprehensive user support and user training.
The infrastructure is jointly operated at the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching (LRZ) in sustainable and energy efficient environments.
BayernKI is funded by the Hightech Agenda Bavaria (HTA) and accessible free of charge for researchers at Bavarian universities and universities of applied sciences.
Latest Milestones
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. “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... “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. 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. 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.