Starting from quarter 0403/2022, the two NHR centers, NHR@ZIB and NHR@Göttingen, will account in the new unit core hours. HLRN provides The NHR centers provide computational resources primarily to scientific institutions in Germany under public law. The details regarding the policies for resource allocation and payment are prescribed by the Fees And Regulations on the HLRN webpage Zulassungs- und Entgeltordnung considering the unit conversion 1 NPL = 6 core hour.
- A user accesses an NPL account containing a number of NPL (Norddeutsche Parallelrechner-Leistungseinheit/north-german parallel-computer work unit).
- HLRN charges for batch jobs on the compute system. The charge for a job is a number of NPL.
- Usage of magnetic tapes or hard disk capacity is currently not accounted.
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