NHR        
Project Class starter large normal small fpga-development teaching test
Purpose Intended for applicants that are new to high performance computing Projects with large resource requirements Medium size resource requirements (e.g. large scale GPU accelerated application) Projects with small resource requirements (e.g. FPGA or GPU accelerated application, PhD thesis) Project with a special emphasis on FPGA acceleration of HPC codes (e.g. in scope of AMD/Xilinx HACC program)* Teaching (courses, thesis, project groups)** Porting applications, scalability analysis
Systems
Noctua 1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Noctua 2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✕ ✓
Resources

CPU-Core-hours
per year

 depending on needs > 30 Mio. > 4 Mio. and <= 30 Mio. <= 4 Mio. <= 4 Mio. <= 100,000 depending on purpose, by default 100,000

GPU- or FPGA-hours
per year

 depending on needs > 100,000 GPU-h or FPGA-h <= 100,000 GPU-h or FPGA-h <= 10,000 GPU-h or FPGA-h <= 10,000 FPGA-h - depending on purpose, by default 1,000 GPU-h
Prerequisites
Location of applicant (Principal Investigator, PI) Germany Germany Germany UPB, NRW (only locations without local/Tier-3 resources) worldwide UPB, NRW (only locations without local/Tier-3 resources) Germany
Project duration one year one year or multi-year one year or multi-year one year one year 3 - 6 months one month
Short Extension (3 months) and/or 25% increase of resources possible
(request from pc2-support@uni-paderborn.de)		 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕
Can the project be extended by a  followup project? ✕, usually followed up by a NHR-normal/large project ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✕ ✓
Review Process
Technical Review ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Scientific Review internal review external review external review internal review internal review ✕ ✕
Submission Process
Call for Proposals continuous submission

4x per year

Current Call

 continuous submission continuous submission continuous submission continuous submission continuous submission
Typical duration till project start about one week after proposal submission
  • preliminary project start: after successful formal/technical check, about one week after proposal submission
  • full project start: 3 months after submission deadline due to duration of external reviews 
  • preliminary project start: after successful formal/technical check, about one week after proposal submission
  • full project start: after external scientific review, typically 4-6 weeks
 about one week after proposal submission about one week after proposal submission about one week after proposal submission about one week after proposal submission
Proposal Guide Guide to apply for NHR-starter Guide to apply for NHR-large

Guide to apply for NHR-normal

 Guide to apply for a small project Guide to apply for an fpga-development project Guide to apply for a teaching project Guide to apply for a test project


(*) Scientists of research and teaching institutions worldwide can be granted access to FPGA systems in the context of a research collaboration with PC2.
(**) Thesis with focus on FPGA-acceleration of HPC codes can be granted access to Noctua2.

worldwide = research and teaching institutions worldwide
Germany = universities in Germany (including universities of applied science)
NRW = research institutions located in North Rhine-Westphalia (State NRW)
UPB = Paderborn University

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