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.

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.

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…