Access to JUWELS is available through different calls that all have different eligibility criteria and resources to be distributed:
- NIC (John von Neumann Institute for Computing)
- GCS Large Scale (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing)
- PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe)
Resource pool | Eligibility |
NIC | German researchers; national and international collaborators possible |
GCS Large Scale | |
PRACE | European researchers |
The calls for all resource pools except PRACE are synchronized:
- Two calls per year
- Calls open end of January and end of July for about one month
- Allocation periods start 1 May and 1 November every year
- Computing time is granted for one year, extension of projects is possible after each year
- Selection of projects is based on a peer-reviewed process
Applications are accepted online only, not via email or regular mail:
NIC | http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Expertise/Supercomputers/ComputingTime/computingTime_node.html |
GCS LS | http://www.gauss-centre.eu/gauss-centre/EN/HPCservices/HowToApply/_node.html |
Information to provide in computing time proposal (excerpt):
- Clear scientific goals, verifiable milestones
- Detailed and clearly arranged work schedule
- Well-founded and detailed demonstration of required resources
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Preliminary studies demonstrating good scaling behavior to at least 8192 cores under production conditions
- Status report (in case of a project extension)
Examplary computing time proposals:
JSC also provides preparatory access to its supercomputer resources. Approved preparatory access projects get a small computing time allocation on JUWELS or JURECA supplemented by expert assistance from one of the JSC SimLabs for a period of up to four months to verify and improve the performance of their application and prepare a full computing-time proposal.
Expertise offered by SimLab staff includes:
- Porting and tuning of codes for the JURECA and JUWELS systems
- Performance analysis and scaling improvement of codes/applications
- (Re)design of computational methods needed to exploit highly parallel architectures
SimLab Neuroscience is in place to provide this kind of support to neuroscience projects: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/slns
Questions? Contact HBP-HPC-Platform@fz-juelich.de! |