NHR application rules – NHR@FAU
Since January 2021, NHR@FAU is one of now nine centers of the NHR Alliance.
There is a joint portal of all NHR centers for compute time applications (JARDS).
You’ll find all up-to-date information on the application process for NHR@FAU below.
Contacting NHR@FAU
You can reach NHR@FAU by email to hpc-support@fau.de. Availability by phone cannot be guaranteed as many of us are still partially working from at home.
Individual consulting using Zoom, BigBlueButton, or DFN-Conf can be arranged on short notice. Just send an email to hpc-support@fau.de.
Offerings of NHR@FAU
Scientific offerings
NHR@FAU offers support especially in the area of performance engineering and single-node performance analysis. The application focus is on atomistic simulations, i.e. molecular dynamics, chemistry, and certain areas of material sciences. Special experience is in particular available for Gromacs and Amber as well as VASP.
Compute resources
NHR@FAU offers two different types of compute resources:
- GPGPU cluster “Alex” with Nvidia A40 and Nvidia A100 GPGPUs (mainly for throughput-type of workload and not for multi-node GPU jobs)
- Parallel computer “Fritz” with Intel Xeon Platium 8360Y “IceLake” processors, 250 GB of main memory, and HDR100 interconnect within islands of 64 nodes (i.e. 4.608 cores). In addition there are a few large memory nodes with 1 or 2 TB of main memory.
Types of projects at NHR@FAU
Regular projects by default have a project runtime of 12 months. The review process typically takes less than 3 months. Test / porting projects will be decided within 3-4 weeks.
Type of project | Possible resources on “Alex” | Possible resources on “Fritz” | Type of review | Remarks |
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up to 3.000 GPU hours (A40 or A100) | up to 500.000 core hours |
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Rolling call.
A scientific advisor from NHR@FAU (liaison scientist) will be assigned. |
normal compute time projects for granted DFG or BMBF projects |
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1 – 10 mio core hours |
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Rolling call.
A scientific advisor from NHR@FAU (liaison scientist) can be requested |
normal compute time projects built without granted DFG or BMBF projects |
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1 – 10 mio core hours |
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Rolling call.
A scientific advisor from NHR@FAU (liaison scientist) can be requested. |
large compute time projects (usual project runtime: 12 months) |
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10 – 30 mio core hours |
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Deadlines for large-scale applications: January / April / July / October 1st.
A scientific advisor from NHR@FAU (liaison scientist) will be assigned. |
follow-up projects | as above | as above |
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a scientific advisor from NHR@FAU (liaison scientist) can be requested |
Projects falling into the “large compute time projects” category should also consider applying for compute time at one of the three federal Tier1 HPC centers of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS).
Template for NHR@FAU compute time application proposals
You may still use our template for NHR@FAU compute time proposals and send it by email from your university account to hpc-support@fau.de.
The document contains detailed information on what to fill in. Depending on the project type, some sections are optional and the expected length of some sections may also vary; see the notes in the document for details and contact us via hpc-support@fau.de for further assistance.
template for NHR@FAU compute time proposals (Last update of the template: November 29th, 2023)
NHR@FAU compute time applications via JARDS
If you apply for NHR@FAU compute time by using the central online application portal JARDS, you need to give, additionally to the information to be filled online, some data about the scientific aspects of your project. For this part of the application, please use the following template:
template for NHR@FAU compute time proposals via JARDS (Last update of the template: November 10th, 2023)
After entering all necessary data in the template, save it as a single PDF file and upload it to JARDS when finishing your online application process.
Template for NHR@FAU project report
If your NHR@FAU project has ended, you are required to write a report. For details, please download the template for NHR@FAU project report and send it by email from your university account to hpc-support@fau.de.
template for NHR@FAU project report (Last update of the template: November 10th, 2023)
Acknowledgement of NHR@FAU
Please use the following formulation for acknowledging the resources and the support provided by NHR@FAU:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the scientific support and HPC resources provided by the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) under the NHR project <ID of your NHR@FAU project>. NHR funding is provided by federal and Bavarian state authorities. NHR@FAU hardware is partially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 440719683.
Please also send electronic copies of these publications by email to nhr-redaktion@lists.fau.de. Proper acknowledgements of our services is important for our center’s evaluation and its future funding.