Project Management

Projects are the primary (and soon to be the only) unit used to manage compute and storage resources. They by extension provide resources to each project’s members. They are organized into a hierarchical tree with each project having zero or more users and zero or more sub-projects. Note that “projects” here represent actual compute projects and several other project-like things:

  • literal compute projects that were applied for and approved
  • institutions and workgroups at University Göttingen, MPG, etc.
  • pseudo-projects for NHR test accounts
  • Courses and workshops
  • sub-projects of the above for compartmentalizing resources or better organization (e.g. the project for a workgroup at University Göttingen might have a sub-project for individual student thesis projects)

Giving resources directly to users without being a member of a project has ended for NHR starting 2024/Q2 (legacy users are being grandfathered in for a transitional period) and is being phased out for the SCC.

All projects starting 2024/Q2 are managed using the HPC Project Portal. NHR and SCC projects started before 2024/Q2 must be managed by support ticket (see Getting Started to get the right email address) until they are migrated to the HPC Project Portal, though not all management operations are possible without migrating.

Warning

NHR projects started before 2024/Q2 must migrate on their next renewal, or at an earlier date if the PI/s wish it or need a change to be applied that cannot be done without migrating. See the NHR/HLRN Project Migration page for more information.

Using the HPC Project Portal and/or being added to a project in it requires that one has an AcademicCloud account. All students and researchers of the University of Göttingen, the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Institutes should already have a valid account. Researchers from many other institutions can also login via federation login from their home institute with their institutional credentials. It is important to login to the AcademicCloud at least once to be able to use the HPC Project Portal or be added to projects.

See the following sub-pages for individual project management topics: