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Overview of Compute Project Categories and Links to Submission Forms

Overview of Compute Project Categories and Links to Submission Forms

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Please find a tabular description of the available project categories and links to the submission forms below. As an overview the competence network HPC.NRW developed Quick Reference Cards for illustration of the application, approval and allocation process. If you already have a project please consider the information regarding project extensions here. The following figure might help to find the best project category.

 

Prinicipal Investigators (PIs) are supposed to be leading scientists with a doctoral degree or a permanent position who are qualified to also take part in the scientific reviewing process. Only contact data of the institute are accepted (email, address, etc.). Please do not use your private contact data.

Please note: If the PI uses a trusted email address (fz-juelich or rwth-aachen domain) the submission can be finalized by the PI online (without paper).
Otherwise do not forget to also upload a signed version of your proposal to JARDS. You can also or email a signed an version to hpc-projects@itc.rwth-aachen.de using the mail subject  "Application for Compute Time No. xxxx" after the online submission!

Project Category
(purpose)

Submission and Reviewing Procedures

max monthly
computing time quota

max annual/per project
computing time quota

Project categories for research institutions and industry
WestAI

Continuous submission.
A detailed project description is required.
Technical review only.

  • CPU: no CPU resources available
  • GPU: 833 GPU-h (~ 0.02 Mio core-h)
  • CPU: no CPU resources available
  • GPU: 10000 GPU-h (~ 0.24 Mio core-h)

(only one project per PC)

Project categories for all applicants from any German public or government-approved university (including RWTH Aachen University)

NHR Large
(large research computing project)

Quaterly submission as described here.
A detailed project description is required.
Technical and external scientific reviews.

  • CPU: 4.17 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 13916 GPU-h (~0.33 Mio Core-h)
  • CPU: 50 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 167000 GPU-h (~ 4 Mio core-h)
NHR Normal
(medium size research computing project)

Continuous submission as described here (****).
A detailed project description is required.
Technical and external scientific reviews.

  • CPU: 1 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 6916 GPU-h (~ 0.166 Mio core-h)
  • CPU: 12 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 83000 GPU-h (~ 1.992 Mio core-h)

Prep / Test

(test / preparation of a large research computing projects)

Continuous submission as described here.
Short free-text project description only.
Technical reviews only.

  • CPU: 0.085 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 833 GPU-h (~0.02 Mio core-h)

(max. 6 months for testing / preparing larger proposal)

  • CPU: 0.5 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 10000 GPU-h (~0.24 Mio core-h)

(max. 6 months for testing / preparing larger proposal)

Project Categories for applicants from Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University or universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (including universities of applied sciences (HAW)) who would like to apply for a project in the field of engineering sciences

RWTH small
(small research computing projects)

Continuous submission.
Short free-text project description [pdf] [tex] (1-2 pages)
Technical reviews only
Please use this online application form.
 

  • CPU: 0.03 Mio core-h)
  • GPU: 416 GPU-h (~ 0.01 Mio core-h)
  • CPU: 0.36 Mio core-h
  • GPU: 5000 GPU-h (~ 0.12 Mio core-h)
RWTH thesis
(bachelor and master thesis, personal study practice, not for PhD thesis)

Continuous submission.
No project description
Technical reviews only
Please use this online application form.

n/a
  • CPU/GPU: 0.048 Mio core-h per project
RWTH lecture
(education, lectures, seminars, group practica)

Continuous submission.
No project description
Technical reviews only

Please use this online application form.

n/a
  • CPU/GPU: 0.048 Mio core-h per project
RWTH open (employees)

available by default to scientists of
RWTH Aachen University and RWTH-Partner

  • CPU/GPU: 0.002 Mio core-h
  • CPU/GPU: 0.024 Mio core-h
RWTH open (students)available by default to students of
RWTH Aachen University
  • CPU/GPU: 0.0005 Mio core-h
  • CPU/GPU: 0.006 Mio core-h
 

Note: You can apply for GPU resources for every project category. These GPU resources are internally accounted in CPU core-h, which basically maps the GPU hours (GPU-h) into CPU core hours of the host processors. At the moment one GPU-h corresponds to 24 CPU Core-h. Applications requesting a higher amount of GPU resources are to be submitted in the corresponding larger project categories (NHR-N, NHR-L).

(*) Applicants are responsible for providing any necessary software licence, please find more information here.

(**) While technical reviewing and setting up the project typically takes up to one week, scientific reviewing depends on the response time of the reviewers and typically takes about one  month. Therefore an initial quota is set up when the technical review is finished. It is increased as approved by the reviewers.

(****) A „call“ for new NHR projects will occur quarterly, with the intention that – for NHR Normal – preliminary resources can be granted quickly, while the final granting decision will be made in conjunction with the final decisions about NHR Large projects by the NHR/NHR4CES panel (meets quarterly). Thus, a belated decrease of computing resources is possible.

last changed on 09/02/2024

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