NEWSFLASHES

Long-time GCS collaborator and user Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde discusses his views on the future of supercomputing.

GCS-sponsored student team deFAUlt, representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, wins “silver” and “bronze” awards at SC18 in coveted benchmark challenges, taking fifth place overall. The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) is part of the annual Supercomputing Conference, which this year was held in Dallas, Texas (USA).

Researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg were awarded the 2018 Gauss Award during the opening session of ISC18 in Frankfurt, Germany. The award-winning research paper explores methods to more accurately model computer chip energy consumption.

Team “FAUboyzz” will be representing the Friedrich-Alexander Universät Erlangen Nürnberg at ISC17. The multi-disciplinary team consists of six students studying computational engineering, computer science and medical engineering at FAU.

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kröner and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein are the new Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the GCS Steering Committee, a panel overseeing the assignment of computing time on the GCS HPC systems.