Schlagwort: ‘Cluster’
Protecting the HPC account with MFA

Protection of the HPC account
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At least a little less than a dozen of Europe’s supercomputers were taken offline simultaneously in May 2020. Several university centres in Europe have been attacked by hackers and had to go offline. The unknown perpetrators hacked the accounts of the users in order to gain access to the supercomputers. Fortunately, our high-performance computer was not affected, but JURECA, JUWELS and JUDAC at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Hawk at the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Centre and the supercomputers at the Leibzig Computing Centre (LRZ), for example, fell victim to the attack.
RegApp – Start of the pilot phase on the cluster

You will no longer be able to assign your password for the HPC account in self-service. (Source: Pixabay)
Cluster users beware!
In preparation for higher security measures when logging in to the RWTH HPC Cluster, your HPC accounts will be switched to RegApp from 02. November 2022.
What is behind this and what will change for you?
Happy Programmer’s Day!

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On September 13, 2022, the world celebrates the annual International Programmer’s Day. In this blog post, we’ll tell you what this holiday is all about, which country it originated in, and how programming works at RWTH Aachen University.
New Year – New CLAIX Report

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The year 2021 is again characterized by progress in research.
High-performance computers such as the Cluster Aix-la-Chapelle (CLAIX) help to understand global issues and solve problems that challenge science. Find out which interesting projects were running on CLAIX in 2021 and which solutions were found for which problems in the CLAIX Annual Report 2021.
Nice to know: Connecting to the cluster – The first steps

High-performance computing at the RWTH Aachen University. This is what our cluster looks like. (Photo: Alexander Müller)
For some people, High Performing Computer (HPC) is an unknown topic with many question marks. If the necessary basic knowledge is not available, this can quickly become overtaxing. To counteract this, we have summarized in today’s blog post how this actually works with high performance computing and the connection to the cluster.