Your R code is taking too long? Your Python code runs out of memory? You have thousands of questions for a large language model (LLM)? If you answered ‘yes’ to at least one of these questions, welcome to High-Performance Computing (HPC). HPC is about the use of powerful computational systems to do computation and data processing at speed and scale far beyond the capabilities of a typical desktop computer or a laptop.
As part of a monthly series of HPC Café talks offered by the National High-Performance Computing Center at the FAU (NHR@FAU) – and for the first time at the PhilFak – Armine Garibyan, a liaison scientist at NHR@FAU, gave a hybrid talk on how researchers with a background in the Humanities or Social Sciences could get access to the HPC resources at the FAU. While these researchers were enjoying their coffee and cakes, Armine told them how using HPC resources at the FAU can make their research more efficient, explained what HPC is, how to get an HPC account and how to use these resources.
If you missed the talk, no worries! Both the recording as well as the slides are available at https://hpc.fau.de/teaching/hpc-cafe/