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GCS Large-Scale Projects are characterised by projects that require a large amount of computing time, meaning a minimum of 2 percent of a system’s annual production in terms of estimated availability, over a period of 12 months. Researchers at German universities and publicly funded German research institutions are eligible to apply.

Interested researchers can apply to gain access to GCS’ leading HPC systems:

• High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS): Hawk (HPE Apollo system)
• Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC): JUWELS (Cluster Module and Booster Module)
• Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching (LRZ): SuperMUC-NG (Intel-Lenovo OceanCat platform)

For Hawk and SuperMUC-NG, large-scale projects are defined in terms of core-hours used. The minimum requirement of 2 percent of the system’s overall performance means that large-scale projects require at least 100 million core-hourson Hawk or at least 45 million core-hours on SuperMUC-NG. 

As JUWELS consists of two different modules with different hardware architectures, the minimal computing time requirements for GCS Large-Scale Projects are specified by the use of EFLOP (EFLOP: theoretical peak performance) with a minimum requirement of 45,000 EFLOP per year—summed up over all requested modules of JUWELS.

For further details on how to apply for computing time or to learn more about the technical details of the three GCS HPC systems, please visit our website HPC Access.

About GCS Large-Scale Projects: All large-scale projects go through a competitive review and resource allocation process established by the GCS. A "Call for Large-Scale Projects" is published by the Gauss Centre twice a year. Deadlines for calls are usually at the end of winter and at the end of summer of each year. An overview of the approved GCS Large-Scale Projects is available at gauss-centre.eu/results/large-scale-projects/.

July 20, 2020