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DeiC HPC resources

DeiC is the overarching national body responsible for coordinating national HPC efforts on across all the danish universities. Among other things, they are responsible for distributing compute time on national HPC facilities.

  • DeiC grants a portion of it's resources to the danish universities for them to hand out. These are the local resources to the national HPC facilities.

  • Another portion is reserved for a national resource pool, from which researchers can apply twice a year.

National HPC facilities

The national HPC facilities are those in which DeiC has a stake and are provided to all universities via the national and local resource pools.

Applications to the local resource pool

Objective: Testing purposes - but grants are also handed out in modest amounts for regular project work

Deadline: None (continuous handouts)

Grant decision: Typically same day

Proces:

In the beginning of every year CLAAUDIA receives an amount of resources to hand out to researchers, who wish to use one of the national platforms. Overall our objective is to make the most of these resources - we aim to strike a balance between maximum utilisation, whilst retaining general availability for our users throughout the year.

How to apply:

Questions regarding the local pool for national HPC facilities

Reach out to CLAAUDIA via serviceportal.aau.dk.

Applications to the national resource pool

Objective: To allow researchers to apply for medium-large sized resource grants

Deadline: March / September

Grant decision: June / December

Proces:

In the beginning of the year a new call is made available and researchers have a 3-month window in which they can apply. When the window ends there is a period, where a scientific committee evaluates the applications that have been submitted. After this proces has been completed, applicants receive a response on the decision - 6 months after the call opened. This cycle repeats twice a year.

How to apply:

The national application calls are always announced on DeiC's website - look for the call text (pdf), to learn about available resources, the proces, etc. Applications are submitted through the e-grant service (structured as an application form with a series of questions). It's possible to get an overview of these questions by logging in to the platform, or viewing see DeiC's guide on using the service). Further it can also be useful to read the section "Assessment criteria" of the official process description.

Questions regarding national HPC grants

If you have questions about an application to a national grant - reach out to CLAAUDIA via serviceportal.aau.dk.

If you have questions regarding an existing national grant - reach out to DeiC's HPC back office through their service desk.