RWTH Email Services Fully Restored [06.02.2012]

After the weekend's disruption, the RWTH email server is now fully functional again. Since Monday afternoon it is possible to send and receive emails without experiencing any problems. For further information, please visit our web page informing on disruptions to the University's IT sevices.

 

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Disruptions to the RWTH Email Service [04.02.2012]

Thursday night the RWTH mail server was abused to relay large quantities of spam email, which led to disruptions to the University's email services.
Now, however, the system has resumed processing emails, but some users may still be subject to constraints. If your email client is capable of receiving emails but not of sending them, please use the RWTH webmailer at http://webmail.rwth-aachen.de.
Using the webmailer, you should not encounter any problems sending your emails. Of course we are working on making the regular email system fully operative again as soon as possible.
For technical details, please visit our website informing on disruptions to the University's IT service.

As far as we know, no emails have been lost. It is possible, however, that outgoing RWTH email is currently being blocked or even discarded by some external sites and email servers. For this reason, if you have sent out highly important emails on Friday, we advise you to make sure that the addressees have received them.

If you have any further questions, please contact our service desk at
servicedesk@rz.rwth-aachen.de .

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JARA-HPC partition [02.02.2012]

RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) have pooled contingents of their high-performance computers and supercomputers, thus establishing the so-called JARA-HPC partition. All scientists of RWTH Aachen, Forschungszentrum Jülich and German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS) will for the first time have exclusive access to approximately 600 TFlops of computing performance on supercomputers. Applications for this computing time period starting on May 1st, 2012  must have been submitted until February 29. For further information see here. ...view article

Minister Harry Voigtsberger visited RWTH Aachen University [2012-20-01]

Research about aircraft noise was the main topic of the visit. Harry Voigtsberger, minister of economic affairs, energy, construction, living and transport of North Rhine-Westphalia, just visited the Center for Computing and Communication of RWTH Aachen University. After the address of welcome of RWTH Aachen University prorector Günther Schuh research about noise and aircraft noise was the main subject. The speakers were Prof. Rolf Henke, board of directors for aeronautical research of the german center for aeronautics, short DLR. Following Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eike Stumpf of the institute for aeronautics and Univ.-Prof. Michael Vorländer of the institue of acoustics introduced to their actual projects. The head of the Virtual Reality Group of the Center for Computing and Communication Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Torsten Kuhlen presented a simulation demonstration to Mr. Voigtsberger in the CAVE: Thus the minister got the experience of  aircraft noise in Virtual Reality. Photo: Martin Lux - from left to right: Sebastian Pick, Prof. Dr. Torsten Kuhlen, Minister Harry Voigtsberger, Eckhard Anton, Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh. ...view article

New HPC-Cluster is accessible for all users [2011-10-18]

Since Monday 2011-10-17  the new Bull HPC-Cluster is accessible for all users.

It offers a new cluster environment which provides - among others - 300 TFlops compute power, a powerful GPU cluster, Linux upgrade to Scientific Linux 6.1 and OpenMPI becomes default (SunMPI is removed, applications have to be recompiled)

See here for further information.

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Aixcelerate - Tuning Workshop [2011-09-14]

The HPC Group of the RWTH Aachen University offers this fall (October 11-13) a Tuning-workshop with hands-on. The focus of this workshop is the optimization of parallel programs for clusters-systems. We will show different tuning opportunities and give an introduction to the Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector. Further information and details to the registration can be found on our course-website.

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The First General Meeting of Bull HPC User Group (Bux) [2011-09-07]

The first General Meeting of Bull HPC User Group (BUX) on 6-7 October, 2011 will be hosted by the Center for Computing and Communication, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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New RWTH supercomputer on Rank 32 of the worldwide Top500 list [27.06.2011]

Installed last April at the Center for Computing and Communication, the new RWTH compute cluster achieved rank 32 on the latest Top500 list of the world's fastest computers. The corresponds to rank 10 within Europe and rank 4 in Germany after two systems in the  Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) and a more experimental system at the Frankfurt University.

Installed by the company Bull, the cluster comprises over 1700 compute nodes with some 28,000 processor cores and 91,6 TB of main memory. Two file systems with 1.5 PB each  provide fast access to online storage with up to 19 GB/s of bandwidth.

With 219,8 TFlop/s of measured performance, the new system is four times faster than the existing 800 compute nodes of the  previous RWTH Compute Cluster. Currently the Cluster offers more than 350 TFLop/s of peak performance for education and research.

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Attention!! Moving of MSDNAA platform to a new web portal [19.05.2011]

On first of June a changeover of MSDNAA platform (ELMS) takes place. The changeover will start at 8pm. At this

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Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science (PPCES) March 2011 [25.02.2011]

This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen (March 21^st – 25^th ). After the announcement of the upcoming 300 TFlop/s RWTH Compute Cluster on Monday, we will cover serial and parallel programming using OpenMP and MPI in Fortran and C / C++ as well as performance tuning. On Friday an introduction into GPGPU programming will be given by a renowned speaker. Find more information here >>>

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New supercomputer for RWTH Aachen University [14.02.2011]

The RWTH Aachen has ordered a new supercomputer. The computer features over 28,000 processing cores, will deliver some 300 Teraflops of power and three Petabytes of disk storage, and will give the University a significant advantage when it comes to running computer simulations that reflect reality as closely as possible. In addition, the University's Center for Computing and Communication and Bull have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at optimizing applications that may be useful to industry in heterogeneous cluster environments and in the area of 'Green IT'. ...view article

CCC is broadcasting the annual review of RWTH Aachen University [26.01.2011]

At January 28, 2011 the annual review of RWTH Aachen University is taking place. The university administration is going to inform about changes and news around the university. In cooperation with the Filmstudio e.V., the CCC is broadcasting the event live on the Internet.  ...view article

Sun Convergence will replace Sun Java System Messenger Express [02.02.2010]

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From RZ-Helpdesk to RZ-ServiceDesk [16.12.2009]

On the 1rst of  January 2010 the 'RZ-ServiceDesk' will go into service as the Single Point of Contact: SPoC for all members of RWTH Aachen University regarding all IT-Services of the Center for Computing and Communication. Therefore the RZ-ServiceDesk will replace the previous RZ-Helpdesk with an enlarged offer of services. ...view article

NAG Seminar on Tuesday, 3. Nov 14:30-16:00

Dr. Jeremy Walton and Helena Wood from *The Numerical Algorithms Group* are going to give An Introduction to NAG Numerical Components focussing on the NAG Libraries for Windows, the NAG Library for SMP & Multicore, and the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB. More information please find here >>>  ...view article

Series of HPC Workshops [08.10.2009]

On Monday, October 12th, a week of HPC themed workshops started at the Center for Computing and Communication in the "Multimediaraum".
The topics covered debugging with TotalView, serial tuning for the new Nehalem-architecture and an introduction to ScaleMP, presented by experts from TotalView Technologies, Intel, ScaleMP and the HPC team.  ...view article