The Weka Storage and Milan partition have been successfully delivered for the new NEMO2 cluster. Testing, benchmarking, and system configuration will take place in the coming weeks. We anticipate starting with limited functionality and gradually expanding it over time. A portion of the old NEMO cluster had to be shut down to accommodate the installation of the Milan partition.

The 10th bwHPC Symposium will take place on September 25th and 26th, 2024 and will be hosted by the University of Freiburg. Registration and call for participation are now open.

The use of a second factor to secure logins to services is becoming increasingly mandatory. bwHPC currently uses time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) or Yubico OTP as a second factor for SSH logins. We have looked at some hardware security tokens for bwIDM/bwHPC that can be used instead of a mobile phone.

The initial partition of NEMO2, consisting of around 140 Milan nodes and 1000 terabytes (one petabyte) of high-speed storage space, has been ordered. A tender for a GPU partition and a second CPU partition will be opened in early 2024.

We will enforce two-factor authentication for NEMO logins in November. Currently, this security feature can be tested on our vis1/2 visualization nodes.

We are currently testing two-factor authentication for NEMO logins. Currently, this security feature can be tested on our vis1/2 visualization nodes.

The 9th bwHPC Symposium will take place on October 23, 2023 and will be hosted by the University of Mannheim.
UPDATE 13.07.2023: Registration is now open.

The 8th bwHPC Symposium will take place on November 28, 2022 and will be hosted at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS).
UPDATE 11.07.2022: Registration is now open.

The SCC at KIT will host introductory and intermediate courses for bwHPC on 07.04.2022 and 13.04.2022.