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Whitelist status is granted by the scientific review board under two three conditions:
- First1st, you apply for a "Normal project" with which is defined by less than 5M core-hours per quarter (see Apply for a Compute Project /wiki/spaces/~712020df0a8b6e52b24630951fd723b0de0e2a/pages/426729).
- Secondly2nd, you are part of an active DFG/BMBF/NHR/GCS or EU project, which explicitly describes HPC resource requirements . As in its proposal.
- 3rd, as evidence, you need to upload the corresponding project proposal and its review report to the online portal. We keep it confidential. If an upload is not possible due to confidentiality requirements, whitelisting is unfortunately not possible.
Please avoid:
- Imprecise or incomprehensible estimation of requested computational resources (especially core-hours); for example, missing arguments to justify a certain number of N runs instead of a smaller number. One page is our recommended minimum.
- No proof, that the software to be used is suitable and efficient for parallel execution (and parallel I/O) on our current HPC systems architecture. Recycling a scalability demo by a third party is meaningless, without showing that your planned production run is fully comparable to it (algorithm selection within the software, I/O pattern, machine architecture, problem size per core).
- The overall aim and/or motivation behind the project is unclear.
- The applicant lacks HPC/Unix skills and an experienced co-applicant is missing.
- Insufficiency of the applicant's local resources is not indicated.
- The NHR was not mentioned in relevant publications.
- Cut & paste previous/parallel proposals; instead, refer to these.
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