Archive 2020
High performance computers under attack all over Europe
According to news services (e.g. heise.de) several computing centers all over Europe reported attacks on their high performance computing systems in recent days. Some of them had to block all access to their systems or even shut them down temporarily.
Given the first analyses the HPC systems of the RRZK are not compromised. Nevertheless we are asking all users of our HPC systems (e.g. CHEOPS) to change their passwords via uniKIM:
If you are using SSH keys to access the servers, please also generate and use a new one.
This only affects a part of our users. If you never explicitly requested access to the HPC systems of the university, there is nothing to do on your side.
In general please be aware never to use the same passwords or SSH keys on different locations. In the current situation by no means you should use a password or SSH key on the HPC systems of the UoC which you also use somewhere else.
The computing centers are working together in the Gauß-Allianz and the Gauß Center to analyze the incidents and to coordinate their further strategy.
Additional information can be found (in German) here:
German scientist is awarded with the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award from the 'Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)'
Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Geophysics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) is the winner of the 2020 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding contributions to and impact on HPC in Europe.
http://www.prace-ri.eu/2020-prace-ada-lovelace-award-for-hpc/
https://twitter.com/PRACE_RI/status/1214558358356688901
ISC High Performance 2020
Event note: The HPC Event ‘ISC High Performance 2020’ will take place from June 21 - 25 as a digital event:
International HPC Summer School 2020
cancelled
The eleventh "International HPC Summer School on Computational Sciences HPC Challenges" (IHPCSS) will take place in Toronto, Canada from July 12-17, 2020’. Applications can be submitted on the page of the ‚International HPC Summer School‘ from the end of November.
Further information: http://www.ihpcss.org/ or https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter/76/article/InternationalHPCSummerSchoo2020
OpenMP Programming Workshop at the LRZ
A three-day ‘Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’ (PRACE) workshop will take place from February 11 to 13 at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Science and Humanities and you can still register until January 28.
Further information: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/947/
Registration: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/947/registrations/682/
Free online courses on the subject of supercomputing
How is a supercomputer constructed? How is a supercomputer used and what significance does the use of supercomputers have for modern science?
These basic questions will be developed in an online course in English from 24 September on the e-learning portal "futurlearn.com". The course is aimed at anyone interested in supercomputing, high-performance computing and state-of-the-art computer technology. The course was developed by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with the research organisation SURFsara from the Netherlands.
All important information and registration can be found at: www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing
Contact
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the RRZK-Helpdesk