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. On top of numerous applications in the areas of atomistic simulations, quantum chemistry, and materials science, Helma will run workloads for the fast-growing AI user community at FAU and universities. About 200 of the GPUs will be available for researchers in Bavaria via the BayernKI program. Beyond BayernKI, funding for the hardware came from NHR, the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and the Universities of Applied Sciences in Hof and Landshut. We thank our sponsors for the new state-of-the-art research resources.
The cluster is named after Wilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758). Together with her husband Friedrich (1711–1763) she founded the University of Erlangen in 1743.
More components for Helma will follow soon in 2025 for even more computing power.
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. On top of numerous applications in the areas of atomistic simulations, quantum chemistry, and materials science, Helma will run workloads for the fast-growing AI user community at FAU and universities. About 200 of the GPUs will be available for researchers in Bavaria via the BayernKI program. Beyond BayernKI, funding for the hardware came from NHR, the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and the Universities of Applied Sciences in Hof and Landshut. We thank our sponsors for the new state-of-the-art research resources.
The cluster is named after Wilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758). Together with her husband Friedrich (1711–1763) she founded the University of Erlangen in 1743.
More components for Helma will follow soon in 2025 for even more computing power.