bwForCluster NEMO

Research Cluster for Neuroscience, Elementary Particle Physics, Microsystems Engineering and Materials Science (NEMO)

Security Update November 2026.1

Published: 2 Nov 2026 by HPC Team Freiburg

The login nodes will be rebooted at:
login1.nemo.uni-freiburg.de : 2026-11-03 18:00 CET (scheduled)
login2.nemo.uni-freiburg.de : 2026-11-04 07:00 CET (scheduled)
Worker nodes are rebooted automatically after their last job finishes (rolling reboot started on 2026-11-02 12:00 CET).

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The University of Freiburg operates bwForCluster NEMO 2 as part of bwHPC, the state-wide high-performance computing initiative of Baden-Württemberg. bwHPC provides access to compute clusters and storage infrastructure for research and teaching across all universities in the state.

NEMO 2 is available for researchers in the communities: Neuroscience, Elementary Particle Physics, Microsystems Engineering and Material Sciences. The complementary bwUniCluster 3.0 (at KIT) is available to all researchers and students in Baden-Württemberg without project proposal.

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