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"Brainware for green HPC" by Dieter an Mey awarded as "notable paper in computing in 2012" [07.06.2013]

The publication "Brainware for green HPC" co-authored by Dieter an Mey, head of the HPC group, has been acknowledged and selected as a notable paper in computing in 2012.
...view articleGerman Heterogeneous Computing Group (GHCG) Meeting [24.05.13]

On
May 23rd - 24th, 2013 the second usergroup meeting of the
German Heterogeneous Computing Group (GHCG) took place in the Center for Computing and Communication. It was a fully success. Thank you to the speakers and to the very interested participants.
...view articleHPC Battle 2013 [14.05.2013]
The winner of HPC Battle 2012/2013 is Justus Schwan. He gained 300 € (sponsered byBull GmbH). His certification was presented today from Dieter an Mey (Head of HPC Team of Center for Computing and Communicaton RWTH Aachen University. Please find article
here >>>
...view articleParallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2013, (PPCES) March 11-15, 2013 [15.02.2013]
This event (March 11-15) will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001.
Find more information here
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Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing.
In 2013, the Euro-Par 2013 conference will take place in Aachen, Germany, from August 26th until August 30th.
...view articleWorkshop - Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (November 5th, 2012) [08.10.2012]
On November 5th, the Center for Computing and Communication offers a workshop on "Cloud Computing with Windows Azure" in collaboration with Microsoft.
More details and the registration link can be found on the
event website.
...view article15 years OpenMP [27.09.2012]

This year in October it is 15 years, that the first OpenMP specification has
been published.
...view articleOpenACC Tutorial Workshop (October 11th to 12th, 2012) [13.09.2012]
From October 11th to October 12th 2012 the Center for Computing and Communication offers an OpenACC Tutorial Workshop.
More details and the registration link can be found at the event website.
...view articleTuning for bigSMP HPC Workshop – aixcelerate (October 8th – 10th, 2012) [13.09.2012]
From October 8th to October 10th 2012 the Center for Computing and Communication offers a Tuning for bigSMP HPC Workshop.
More details and the registration link can be found at the event website.
...view articleJARA-HPC partition - 2nd call [26.07.2012]

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 November 1st, 2012 must have been submitted until August 31. For further information see here.
...view articleParallel Programming Courses Summer 2012
From Aug 1 to Sept 12, 2012 the Center for Computation and Communication offers a course series with the topic “parallel programming”.
The courses will cover basics of GPGPU programming as well as parallel programming for CPU’s with OpenMP for shared memory systems and MPI for clusters.
Furthermore, some of the tools installed on the compute cluster of the computing center will be presented. We will cover tools for correctness checking as well as for performance analysis.
The courses will take place weekly on Wednesday morning from 9:00 to 12:00. There is no course fee, but the number of seats is limited, so a registration is required.
Further information can be found
here.
...view articleParallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science 2012, (PPCES) March 19-23, 2012 [2012-03-26]
March 19-23, the workshop on
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science (PPCES)
took successfully place at the Center for Computing and Communication of RWTH Aachen University. To this end, topics as serial tuning, programming using MPI, OpenMP and GPGPUs were covered. Thirty to fifty participants attended the workshop each day which were from Aachen, Bonn, Maastricht (the Netherlands), Copenhagen (Denmark) and more. Please find the photographs of the workshop on
PPCES webside >>>
...view articleRWTH 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.
...view articleDisruptions 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 .
...view articleJARA-HPC partition - 1st call [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 articleMinister 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 articleNew 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.
...view articleAixcelerate - 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.
...view articleNew 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.
...view articleAttention!! 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
MSDNAA portal will temporarily not be available.Due to the change to new software, it will afterwards no longer be possible to access previously distributed product keys!!
...view articleParallel 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 21st – 25th
). 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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...view articleNew 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 articleCCC 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 articleSun Convergence will replace Sun Java System Messenger Express [02.02.2010]

Beginning of march the Sun Convergence will replace the present webmailer, with what you receive, read and write your emails. Sun Convergence will offer a better view of your mail folders, drag and drop funcitions and an adressbook which provides the opportunity of saving, importing and exporting your contacts. The
pilotphase has already started. Please note that the adressbook of the previous mailserver will be transferred not until the final start of operation on beginning of March! Please find the testsystem here
>>> ...view articleFrom 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 articleNAG 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
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