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)

All projects starting 2024/Q2 are managed using the HPC Project Portal. Unmigrated legacy HLRN/NHR projects and legacy SCC and HLRN/NHR usernames are no longer supported since the start of 2026, though they can be migrated without losing data until the start of 2027 (see NHR/HLRN Project Migration).

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:

• Project Portal
• User Perspective
• Managing a Project
• Applying for projects on the SCC
• Data Migration Guide
• NHR/HLRN Project Migration
• Project Structure
• Data Retention Policy
• Export Control