GCS/NIC Computing Time Projects

Description

Within the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), JSC and its partners provide supercomputer resources for researchers from the computational sciences in Germany.

Eligible

Eligible are scientists with affiliations of German universities or research facilities. Here, the nationality of the applicant (“Principal investigator, PI“) is irrelevant.

Available project types

Available project types for production are

  • Large-Scale Projects that require a large amount of computing resources over longer periods of time. In detail, projects are classified as "Large-Scale" if the minimum requirement on JUPITER Booster is >=441,250 EFLOP or 125 Mcore-h per year. It is possible to request computing time on both JUPITER Booster and JUPITER Cluster within the same application. However, the classification of an application as "Large-Scale" is determined exclusively by the amount of compute time requested on JUPITER Booster.
  • GCS/NIC Regular Projects: projects which do not fall into the category “Large-Scale”.

Detailed resource information and available calls

Acknowledgement of GCS/NIC resources

Papers, presentations, and other publications containing results obtained with GSC/NIC resources must include proper acknowledgements and the HPC system(s) used must additionally be cited properly.

Acknowledgements for using GCS/NIC resources

Contact information

Office for the Allocation of Computing Time
Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Forschungszentrum Jülich
52425 Jülich
Germany

Phone: 02461 61-2200
E-Mail: coordination-office@fz-juelich.de

Last Modified: 10.07.2026