KISSKI Application Process
The KISSKI project combines many offers. All of them are listed in the service catalogue on the KISSKI webpage. To become a user of the resources from KISSKI, you have to fill out the form linked behind the “book” button on the service page. You require an academic cloud account to register for the service, which is explained in the FAQ.
Smaller projects that request resources bellow 25.000 GPU-hours can be granted almost immediately, while larger projects require a more in-depth check of the proposal. A project can start anytime, if you need access right away you might request immediate access.
A request for consulting takes longer to be processed, due to the requirement for one of our employees to be free. Regardless of the starting time, personnel resources of up to 1 week can be granted for each project as stated in the FAQ.
Compute resources
In addition to personal and work information regarding your group, it is required to gather these information:
- A short meaningful project acronym as well as a short Project description
- Project runtime
- Time window for the computations
- Required hardware resources (in GPU-hours)
- Required Storage in terms of number of files and total file size
Project and compute run time
A project can only run for a year and it may start anytime. Additionally, applying for an extension of the project can be done without a new application. For an extension, only an abstract about the work already done, an abstract about the work to be performed in the future and the extension duration is required. An extension is possible once, again up to a maximum of one year.
The start and end of the compute time can be different from the project run time. We also offer storage, meaning it is possible to apply for a year long project that only requires computations in the last months of the project. This can be useful for example, if the project starts with data collection, and only the last phase of the project is computation evaluation. For now, this feature is not implemented in the project Portal but the form is already set up for this option.
Required hardware resources
The required hardware can be requested in terms of GPU-hours and the limit is 50.000 GPU-hours per project.
These numbers are calculated by accumulating the number of GPU and the time duration they are run for. Our other resources use core-hours for CPU and an example for the calculations can be found in our documentation. Keep in mind that one node contains 4 GPU and all of them count to the total for that node.
| Comment | Nodes | Run time | Run time hours | GPU-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A small single node test run for a few days a week | 1 | 24 hours * 4 days | 96 | 384 |
| A small single node run over one full week | 1 | 24 hours * 7 days | 168 | 672 |
| A four node run for a week | 4 | 24 hours * 7 days | 168 | 2.688 |
| A four node run for a month | 4 | 24 hours * 30 days | 720 | 11.520 |
| A four node run for four months | 4 | 24 hours * 120 days | 2880 | 46.080 |
Required storage
For storage, we require information about the number of files you would like to store and what the total amount of memory is. The number of files are important because we have special storage solutions for the KISSKI project. One solution performs better for large files, while the other is better for smaller files. We can also offer workflows to optimise the storage depending on your needs.
An estimate for total storage needs is required because our storage capacity is limited and extremely large requests with many TB or even PB need to be processed separately. If you are planning a project that requires very large amounts of storage, please use our support and contact us before applying for the project.
Chat-AI
For the Chat service we additionally require you to state your desired access. You can choose between general use, API access, fine tuning and custom LLM hosting. Please, fill in the text box and let us know your specific requirements.