Marvin's Second Anniversary: The Science Slam at the End of the Universe

Thursday 19 Mar 2026, 10:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Daniel Minge (uni-bonn), Dirk Barbi (uni-bonn), Petra Mutzel (uni-bonn)

Attend the Celebration!

You are invited to join our interactive event including the following highlights:

• Anniversary Celebration: Join us as we honor the second anniversary of Marvin's opening. Let us discuss the state of the cluster, technological developments, and possible chances for the future.
• Invited Talk by Dr. Georg Hager, Head of Research
  

  Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU): "Do the math! Pen-and-paper HPC for fun and profit"

• Science Slam: Watch entertaining showcases of exciting research outcomes produced on Marvin and vote on the winner.
• Networking & Collaboration: Connect with fellow researchers and exchange insights.

 

Register here. Registration is necessary to attend.

This event is jointly organized by HPC@HRZ, the HPC/A Lab and TRA Modelling.

Enter the Science Slam:

Want to enter the competition?

Submit an abstract about your most interesting result generated with Marvin!

Win prices such as a temporarily higher compute priority or premium support from the HPC Team!

Click on "Call for Abstracts" on the left for more information.

About our Invited Guest:

Georg Hager holds a PhD and a Habilitation degree in Computational Physics from the University of Greifswald. He leads the Research Division at Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) and is an associate lecturer at the Institute of Physics at the University of Greifswald. Recent research includes architecture-specific optimization strategies for current microprocessors, performance engineering of scientific codes on chip and system levels, and the analytic modeling of structure formation in large-scale parallel codes. Georg Hager has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and was instrumental in developing and refining the Execution-Cache-Memory (ECM) performance model and energy consumption models for multicore processors. In 2018, he won the “ISC Gauss Award” (together with Johannes Hofmann and Dietmar Fey) for a paper on accurate performance and power modeling. He received the “2011 Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award” (together with Jan Treibig and Gerhard Wellein) for outstanding contributions to teaching in computer science. His textbook “Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers” is recommended or required reading in many HPC-related lectures and courses worldwide. Together with colleagues from FAU, HLRS Stuttgart, and TU Wien he develops and conducts successful international tutorials on node-level performance engineering and hybrid programming.

Workshop and Hackathon:

Dr. Georg Hager joins us on the two previous days for a workshop and a hackathon on performance engineering, check these out:

• "Elements of Performance Engineering", https://indico.hiskp.uni-bonn.de/event/1305/
• "Bring-Your-Own-Code Hackathon", with special focus on performance measurement and optimization using LIKWID https://indico.hiskp.uni-bonn.de/event/1306/

 

 

10:00 → 10:15 1: Welcome (Prof. Maren Bennewitz)

Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz, Vice Rector for Digitalization and Information Management, Uni Bonn

Prof. Dr. Petra Mutzel, High Perforamnce Computing and Analytics (HPC/A) Lab, Institute for Computer Science, Uni Bonn

10:15 → 10:45 2: Marvin - State of the Cluster, Technical Developments, Outlook (HPC@HRZ Team, HPC/A)

10:45 → 11:00 Polyglot: Developing large-language models for low-resource languages (The Polyglot Team)

11:00 → 12:00 3: "Elements of Performance Engineering" (Dr. Georg Hager)

Timothy Mattson: "The hitchhiker's guide to the future of HPC - processors, people and programming"

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Interactive Session: Science Slam (7x 15 min)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break and public vote

15:30 → 15:50 5: Award ceremony

15:50 → 16:40 6: Open discussion and concluding remarks