“Helma” already records massive workload

Monitoring showing the workload on Helma on January 7, 2025.

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 part of the new supercomputer is currently in an intense testing phase and will go into open access in the first half of 2025.

As the monitoring visualizes, the capacities of the system were almost fully used on January 7 – so evidently the need for a cluster to support AI research and machine learning already shows.

Additional computing nodes, which are to be delivered in the future, will also ensure that the demand for computing power for AI research is met even better.