Applying for projects on the SCC
Each member/employee of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and Max Planck society is eligible to request a project in the HPC Project Portal for access to the Scientific Compute Cluster (SCC), under any of the following conditions:
- You are the head of a work group, institute or faculty responsible for a group of employees and/or PhD-students.
- You are the primary investigator (PI) of a research project.
- You are supervising a student writing their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis using HPC resources.
Group leaders/heads of an institute or faculty can and should have a generic, long-running project to grant HPC access to their employees without the need for a specific project title, description or start-/end dates.
These projects will be named “AG
Ultimately, PIs of an existing HPC Portal project will be able to create sub-projects on their own. This feature, among other planned improvements is not implemented, yet.
Applying for an HPC Portal project (Research Group Project)
To apply for a project, please write an email to hpc-support@gwdg.de with a subject like “Request for HPC project on the SCC”, containing the following details:
| Information | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| PI | Primary investigator of the project | Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel |
| Organization | Georg August University, MPG, DPZ, etc. | Georg August University of Göttingen |
| Faculty | If organization is the university, the faculty your institute belongs to | Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik |
| Institute | Your institute | Institut für Informatik |
| Work group name | If applicable | AG Kunkel - High-Performance Storage |
| Optional: One or more delegates | A delegate is able to perform most tasks in the Project Portal in place of the PI. It is highly recommended to appoint one of your trusted group members to perform the duty of managing project membership. |
Applying for sub-projects (Generic Project)
If you have the above generic “AG Professorname” research group project already, is is also possible to apply for sub-projects. These have their own independent set of HPC accounts, since all Project Portal accounts are project-specific. These can for example be used by large research groups to partition their users into sub-groups, or to collaborate with externals on a particular subject.
If you are not a PI or delegate of the research group project, please put one of them in the CC of your email when you request such a sub-project. If your association with the research group is unclear, we will also have to confirm with them that you are allowed to use their HPC resources, which can delay the process.
| Information | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Responsible professor | Head of institute/work group/faculty | Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel |
| Project title | Full title of your project | |
| Project description | Short summary of the topic this project investigates, the goals you want to achieve, etc. | |
| Start and end date | Dates determining from when to when the project will be active. After a project ends, its members will no longer be able to submit jobs. Login will remain possible for 90 days after the project ends, in order to download your data. | |
| Optional: list of members’ email addresses | Once the project is created, you will be able to add and remove/disable members, but if you want to speed this up, you can include a list of initial project members with your application. Please list only official (for example @uni-goettingen.de, not Gmail or Protonmail, etc.) and valid email addresses, one per line. |