Please enter a short project description here. This is especially important for trial accounts and
courses. For normal HPC projects a detailed project description is additionally required, which you
can upload here.
* for researchers from all over Germany there is the possibility
to apply for HPC resources at the NHR Center of the TU Dresden
* for all 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
* Further information can be found in [https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/nhr-center](https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/nhr-center).
If your research topic fits the above focus topics, the application kind 'NHR' is recommended.
* for other focuses other NHR centers are available [https://www.nhr-gs.de/ueber-uns/nhr-verein](https://www.nhr-gs.de/ueber-uns/nhr-verein)
only applicable for members, assiciated members and partners of ScaDS.AI.
The following application steps are the same as for the others, though.
### Login
!!! info ZIH login
For the application of a project no ZIH Login is necessary.
You only need a ZIH login if you want to access
the resources you need for your project.
If you have a TU Dresden account already, then use the first option. Otherwise use the E-Mail callback option.
#### With TU Dresden Account
If you have a ZIH Login, you can use it in the form.
![Login via TU Dresden Account][2]
#### With E-Mail Callback
If you do not have a ZIH login, you can have a login session emailed to you,
just enter your e-mail address in the form.
![Login via E-Mail Callback][3]
Click on the link in the mail.
![Callback Mail][4]
### Jards Frontend
After logging in, you will land on the overview page, which is divided into 3 parts.
#### Overview
In the first part you will get information about the site.
Please pay attention to the title of the page and what project
type of request you are making.
![Overview][7]
#### Active Applications
In this section you can see all applications that have not yet been sent.
You can edit these applications at any time.
![Active Application][6]
##### New Application
To make a new request, press the button at the end of the listing.
!!! hint "Create New Application"
Be aware of, when you press the 'New Project Application' button,
your project will be assigned a unique project ID.
If you are not sure about some details, you can save them and edit them later.
If you decide to create a project proposal for the same project again,
you will receive a new unique project ID.
![New Application][8]
!!! info New Application Kind
Please pay attention to the title of the page and what kind of request you are making.
#### Finalized Applications
Applications that have already been sent can be viewed in this section.
These applications can no longer be updated and are under
review and will be activated in case of a positive result.
![Finalized Application][5]
### Application
-[Project Type](#project-type)
-[Principal Investigator (PI) and Person to Contact (PC)](#principal-investigator-pi-and-person-to-contact-pc)
-[Resources](#resources)
-[Project Data](#project-data)
-[Software](#software)
-[Data Management](#data-management)
-[Upload Full Project description](#upload-full-project-description)
No matter which application you submit, the procedure is always identical.
??? abstract "Project Type"
### Project Type
After a new project application is created you can choose a
* **Trial project**: With a trial projects you can test
whether the HPC resources meet your requirements.
Trial projects are all applications with up to 3500 CPUh/month
or 250 GPUh/month. No detailed project description is required.
* **Regular project**: A regular project are for data intensive and
compute intensive HPC applications, e.g. FEM, CFD and MD simulations.
Regular projects have higher resource requirements than the trial projects.
A detailed project description is required in addition to the online application.
* **Courses**: Courses is a project type for teaching courses,
where you can enable up to 5000 CPUh/month, without additional
communication. If there is a higher resource requirement needed,
it can be enabled after consultation the HPC support.
No detailed project description is required.
Please be aware, that in exceptional cases, ZIH reserves the right
to request a more detailed abstract.
The project application differs depending on the type of
application - and thus which components of our HPC system - resources are applied for.
![Project Type Selection][21]
??? abstract "Principal Investigator (PI) and Person to Contact (PC)"
### Principal Investigator (PI) and Person to Contact (PC)
Choose the principal investigator and the person to contact.
On the Button 'change my role ...' below, you can change your organisational part in the project.
Keep in mind that the principal investigator (PI) has to be:
* institute director
* Professors
* research group leader
![Principal Investigator (PI)][22]
If you have not yet submitted an application to us, you will
be asked to provide your personal information.
![Principal Investigator (PI)][23]
![Principal Investigator (PI)][24]
??? abstract "Resources"
### Resources
Choose the needed resources. Typically, you can choose between GPU and CPU.
If you are unsure about some of the detail questions here and below,
please provide a rough estimate or your best guess instead of specifying 0 or no data.
!!! info
You can only choose after you have specified a project type.
For each choosen resource there are some questions after the project data.
![Resource Selection][12]
Questions for CPU resources could be:
- How much computing time is required for your project in the upcoming
compute time period of one year (in core-hours)?
- What is your job size and how many cores do you need?
- Define your memory: How many GB per core do you need?
!!! hint "Hint"
If you have chosen only CPU resources, please be aware to specify
here only resources for pure CPU nodes. Resources needed on accelerators
(GPUs) must be specified in the corresponding section. If you like
to change your computing time requirements go one slide back.
![CPU][13]
Questions for CPU resources could be:
- How much computing time is required on GPU nodes for your HPC project (in GPU-hours)?
- How many GPU do you use for a single job?
- How much GB of memory do you use for your typical job?
- Which GPU programming scheme (CUDA, OpenACC, etc.) do you use?
- Which software do you deploy on GPUs (own code, third party)?
!!! hint "Hint"
If you have chosen both CPU and GPU resources, but you do not need
compute time on GPUs type in 0 here to be able to continue with your
project application in Jards.
![GPU][14]
??? abstract "Project Data"
### Project Data
In this step, the basic conditions of the project must be specified.
Depending on the selected project type, these can be different.
For example:
- How much time do you plan for your HPC project (add ending date)?
- What is your title of your HPC project (max. 250 char)?
- Define your keywords to explain your HPC project best.
- Please add a short project description (max. 6000 char).
- Explain your plans for this granting period (max. 500 char).
- Are you doing commissioned research (yes/no)?
- Who is sponsoring your HPC project?
- Classify your HPC project according to the following main and sub categories.
- Which methods (physical, mathematical, numerical, ...) are used?
- Which reasons make the use of this supercomputer necessary?
!!! hint "Commissioned Research"
Are you doing commissioned research?
Commissioned research means direct order by private third parties to the
TU Dresden as well as indirect assignments by private third parties on a
promoting institution (university , research institution, or similar institutions).
All research projects sponsored by public institutions such as state, country DFG,
EU etc. are excluded.
This specification is very important. In the end you must confirm this information
in writing. For this purpose, a PDF is generated, which you must send back to us.
![Project Data][28]
![Project Data][29]
![Project Data][30]
??? abstract "Software"
### Software
Next you need to specify which software you want to use.
Here are the following categories, you should answer:
- Commercial Software Packages
- Compilers
- Programming Languages
- Other packages, not named here.
- Use own-developed packages, please name here and provide the links to
the open source software.
- Parallelization strategy
!!!hint "Information About Required Software"
This is important for us, because we need to see if the software is installed, there is a valid license and it is available under the appropriate architecture. The biggest problem is the imagination of the license writers. We have to abide by these conditions. Even if we try to provide the common HPC software including licenses, not every software vendor offers appropriate licenses.
![Software][31]
![Software][32]
??? abstract "Data Management"
### Data Management
The last thing to specify is the I/O behavior. All this information helps us
to check and, if necessary, to create the necessary conditions.
For example:
* How much memory do you need.
* How do your calculations behave (many small files or one big file)?
* Fetch data from external? How?
![Data][33]
![Data][34]
??? abstract "Upload Full Project description"
### Upload Full Project description
If you are choosing the project type 'Regular project' a
detailed project description is needed to complete the application.
You can save the application form and add the detailed description later,
before submitting and finalize the HPC project application.
