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18/02/2025

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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.

07/01/2025

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“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…

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13/12/2024

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“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.

10/12/2024

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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.

Close-up of one of the racks in the Helma Cluster.

06/12/2024

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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.

18/11/2024

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New NHR@FAU cluster “Helma” hits rank #79 in Top500 list

The 64th Top500 list was released today at the SC24 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world according to the “High Performance LINPACK” benchmark, which solves a large, dense system of linear equations.

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15/11/2024

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CAIDAS publishes first all-German large language model “LLäMmlein”

We are presenting a milestone for German-language large language models: At the University of Würzburg (JMU) the first all-German large-scale language model has been created and trained at the Center…

A Megware employee delivers components of the new Helma cluster on a handcart.

06/11/2024

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First part of the Bayern-KI-Cluster “Helma” at NHR@FAU installed

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…

10/08/2024

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Cerebras-Workshop showing potential for AI projects and HPC applications

A face-to-face workshop at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre demonstrated the potential of Cerebras Systems’s CS-2 system for science and research: In addition to training large language models and pattern recognition,…