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# Application for Login and Resources # Application for HPC Resources
In order to use the ZIH systems installed at ZIH, a project application form has to be filled in. ##### This section provides you with guidelines how to
The HPC project manager should hold a professorship (university) or head a research group. You may - apply for resources to use the HPC system -> [application workflow](./project_request_form.md)
also apply for a "Schnupperaccount" (trial account) for one year to find out if the machine is - manage members and their access to the project -> [User management for project leaders](./project_management.md)
useful for your application. <br>
##### Below you will find the information about:
Another possible use case is to request resources for a course. - [NHR-center](#nhr-center)
- [Acknowledgment in Publications](#acknowledgment-in-publications)
- [Terms of Use](#terms-of-use)
To learn more about applying for a project or a course, check the following page:
[https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/zugang][1]
## HPC-Login
### Get Access without an existing ZIH Login ## NHR-center
In order to use the HPC systems installed at ZIH, it is necessary to apply for the resources.
The applicant (HPC project manager) is required to have a doctorate/PhD.
It is possible to apply to different [project types](/project_request_form.md) depending on the project requirements.
To use the resources, you need a valid ZIH login. To get a ZIH login and the access to HPC, However, the [application workflow](/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/application/project_request_form.md) is for all types identical.
please use the [HPC login application form][2].
### Get Access with a valid ZIH Login Since 2021, HPC at universities has been restructured by the [NHR network](https://www.nhr-verein.de/).
The network consists of nine centers, which operate the systems and offer
a coordinated consulting service on the methodological competence of scientific HPC.
The aim is to provide scientists at German universities with computing capacity
for their research and to strengthen their skills in the efficient use of this resource.
!!! Info "Researchers with a doctorate from universities or universities of applied sciences in Germany are eligible to apply"
We particularly invite researchers to apply with
research projects related to our focus topics:
* Life Sciences
* Earth System Science
* Methods for big data and data analysis and
management
* Machine Learning
* Tiered storage architectures and I/O optimization
* Performance and energy efficiency analysis and
optimization
* Research projects not related to our focus topics
but from Universities within Saxony.
We recommend **all other researchers** to review the
focus topics of the remaining
[NHR centers](https://www.nhr-verein.de/anwendungsunterstuetzung) and apply to the most suitable for
your research topic.
Working at the specialized NHR center related to your
research topic, provides you with the advantage of
receiving topic specific support.
When you have a valid ZIH login, there are two possibilities for you: Either the manager or
administrator of a HPC project needs to add you as a member of this project via the
[manager view](project_management.md), or you have to
[apply for a project](project_request_form.md).
## Acknowledgment in Publications ## Acknowledgment in Publications
To provide you with modern and powerful HPC systems in future as well, we have to show that these
systems help to advance research. For that purpose we rely on your help. In most cases, the results
of your computations are used for presentations and publications, especially in peer-reviewed
magazines, journals, and conference proceedings. We kindly ask you to mention the HPC resource usage
in the acknowledgment section of all publications that are based on granted HPC resources of the
[NHR-center at TU Dresden][4].
We kindly ask you to mention the HPC resource usage in the acknowledgment section of all We kindly ask you to mention the HPC resource usage in the acknowledgment section of all
publications that are based on granted HPC resources of the TU Dresden. publications that are based on granted HPC resources of the TU Dresden.
!!! info "Acknowledgment Examples" We provide some acknowledgment examples below.
We provide some [acknowledgment examples](acknowledgement.md) that show you how to do that. <br>
**Examples:**
??? note "Standard case"
The authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time
made available to them on
the high-performance computer <XY> at the NHR Center of
TU Dresden. This center is jointly
supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research and the state governments
participating in the NHR
(www.nhr-verein.de/ unsere-partner).
??? note "Two NHR centers"
The authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time
made available to them on
the high-performance computers <XY> and <YZ> at the NHR
Centers at TU Dresden and <YZ>.
These centers are jointly supported by the Federal
Ministry of Education and Research
and the state governments participating in the NHR
(www.nhr-verein.de/unsere-partner).
??? note "German"
Die Autoren bedanken sich für die ihnen zur Verfügung
gestellte Rechenzeit auf
dem Hochleistungsrechner <XY> am NHR-Zentrum der TU
Dresden. Dieses wird gemeinsam durch
das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und den
am NHR beteiligten
Landesregierungen (www.nhr-verein.de/unsere-partner)
unterstützt.
## Terms of Use
!!! attention
Only the German version of the *Terms of Use* is binding.
These new Terms of Use are valid from April 1, 2018: [HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20180305.pdf][1]
The key points are are:
- For support reasons, we store your contact data according to our [identity management system][9].
(Will be anonymized at least 15 months after the cancellation of the HPC login.)
The data of the HPC project (incl. contact of project leader) will be kept for
further reference.
-Our HPC resources may only be used according to the project description.
- Responsibilities for the project leader:
- She has to assign a team member with an HPC login as the technical project
administrator. She can do this herself if she has a login at our systems.
- The project leader or the administrator will have to add/remove members to
their project. She has access to accounting data for her project.
- These issues cover the data storage in our systems:
- Please work in the scratch filesystems.
- Upon request, the project leader or the administrator can be given access
to a user's directory.
- The scratch filesystems (`/tmp`, `/scratch`, `/lustre/ssd`) are for
temporary use only. After a certain time, files may be removed
automatically (for `/tmp` after 7 days, parallel `/scratch`: after 100 days).
- Before a user leaves a project the leader/administrator has to store away
worthy data. For this, the storage services of ZIH (long term storage,
intermediate archive) can be used.
- Project termination (**new**)
- At project's end, jobs cannot be submitted and started any longer.
- Logins are valid for 30 more days for saving data.
- Hundred days after project termination, it's files will be deleted in
the HPC filesystems.
- The HPC user agrees to follow the instructions and hints of the support
team. In case of non-compliance, she can be disabled for the batch system
or banned from the system.
- Working with logs and HPC performance data (**new**)
- For HPC related research ZIH will collect and analyze
performance data. Anonymized, it might be shared with research partners.
- Log data will be kept for long term analyzes.
These key points are only a brief summary. If in doubt, please consult the German original.
## History
| Valid | Document |
|:--------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------|
| 1 April 2018 - | [HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20180305.pdf][5] |
| 1 October 2016 - 31 March 2018 | [HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20160901.pdf][6] |
| 5 June 2014 - 30 September 2016 | [HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20140606.pdf][7] |
- Not binding translation in english: [Terms-of-use-HPC-20180305-engl.pdf][8]
[1]: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/zugang [1]: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/zugang
[2]: https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/index.php/hpclogin/noLogin [2]: https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/index.php/hpclogin/noLogin
[3]: https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/l/index.php/hpclogin [3]: https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/l/index.php/hpclogin
[4]: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/nhr-center
[5]: misc/HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20180305.pdf?t=1520317028
[6]: misc/HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20160901.pdf
[7]: misc/HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20140606.pdf
[8]: misc/Terms-of-use-HPC-20180305-engl.pdf
[9]: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/dienste/service-katalog/zugangsvoraussetzung
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