Apply for computing time

The following table provides an overview of the access options to the HPC systems at JSC. Following the link "further information" you will find for each access option detailed information about eligibility, calls, and how to acknowledge granted computing time.

JUWELS

JURECA-DC

JUPSI

GCS/NIC

Eligible:

PIs with affiliations of German universities or research facilities

Available resources:

  • JUWELS CPU
  • JUWELS GPU
  • JUWELS Booster

Further Information

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VSR

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Eligible:

PIs with affiliation of Forschungszentrum Jülich

Available resources:

  • JURECA-DC CPU
  • JURECA-DC GPU

Further Information

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ESM

Eligible:

PIs from HGF-funded institutions in the research field "Earth and Environment"

Available resources:

  • JUWELS CPU
  • JUWELS GPU
  • JUWELS Booster

Further Information

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JUNIQ

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Eligible:

PIs with affiliations of German universities or research facilities

Available resources:

  • JUPSI

Further information

HAICORE

Eligible:

PIs from the Helmholtz AI community

Available resources:

  • JUWELS Booster

Further information

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Computing Time: Core-hours and EFLOP

Applicants may request computing time for several systems at the same time within a single proposal. Supercomputers operated at JSC consist of modules which differ considerably in their architectures. So far, computing time has been requested exclusively in units of core-hours, except for the D-Wave Advantage™ System JUPSI for which resource requests have to be specified in hours. However, the effective computing power of the modules per core-hour differs substantially due to their individual architectures. Thus, computing time requirements for more than one module cannot be specified coherently by adding up core-hours over the requested modules. To take this into account, resource requirements for each resource type stated in core-hours will be converted to floating point operations in units of 1018 (EFLOP) based on the theoretical peak performance of the requested module. EFLOP reflects the amount of floating-point operations per year available to approved projects. The project’s total requirement is given by adding up the requested computing time in EFLOP for all modules. In the electronic questionnaire, computing time requirements have to be specified per resource type either, as previously, in million core-hours (Mcore-h) or in EFLOP. Both units will be converted into each other on the fly and displayed in due consideration of the requested resource types. Nonetheless, resources will be granted, allocated and accounted in core-hours only for each resource type, except for the D-Wave Advantage™ System JUPSI for which this will be done in hours.

Last Modified: 29.09.2023