Please submit the complete project proposal for a compute project at the two NHR centers, NHR@ZIB and NHR@Göttingen, to the service NHR@ZIB via the JARDS portal. A project proposal contains four parts which are described in the sections below.

1. meta data (fill out the online formular)  
2. main proposal(upload the pdf created by this template (LaTeX, Word )
3. public abstract(please use this template),  anda signed letter
4. (automatic e-mail will be sent to the PI ) signed proposal summary

After submission, the proposal is evaluated in a review process organized reviewed by the external Scientific Board. Each reviewer obtains access to

• the project proposal,

• the history of previous projects,

• contact data of the HLRN consultant, and
• aggregated statistics for  for usage of computung time on the HLRN NHR systems.

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Stammdaten Stammdaten

Meta

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Data

During the course of online submission, the project proposer needs to address metadata on the service portalprovide some metadata. This includes information about

• the principal investigator (scientist holding a PhD),
• the person in charge of submitting the proposal,
• project partners,
• other evaluations and funding for the project,
• usage of other compute resources,
• project lifetime,
• software requirements (please check availability with your consultant before),
• requirements in units core hour (at least 300 k core hour per quarter, see Application Guide), and
• storage requirements.

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Projektbeschreibung Projektbeschreibung

Main

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Proposal

The main proposal

• needs to upload be uploaded as a prepared document in PDF format,
• is written in English or German. Usually about 10 pages,
• includes the main scientific content and has to address

  should be written in LaTeX based on the main_proposal_template_v1.5.zip. This template includes all relevant aspects like project description, computational facets and resource estimation

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• is written based on the template  (LaTeX, Word).

For the main proposal within the template one of the three types need to be chosen

1. initial proposal
   • scientific part
   • technical part
2. whitelist proposal (if already evaluated by BMBF, DFG, EU, NHR, or GCS)
   • proposal and acceptance of external funding institution
   • technical part
3. follow-up proposal
   • scientific part (brief update) and reference to the initial proposal
   • technical part

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• . The LaTeX template includes both proposal types: initial and follow-up.

We recommend to use the following layout (The here integrated PDF viewer hides elements - please download the PDFs.):

• Initial proposal: sample.pdf
• Follow-up proposal: sample.pdf

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WhitelistStatus WhitelistStatus

The LaTeX template / PDF samples internally differentiate between a normal and a short version in case of whitelist status.
Whitelist status is granted by the scientific review board under three conditions:

• 1^st, you apply for a NHR "Normal project" as described in our JARDS guide: Compute Project#guideandassistance. NHR "Large projects" are excluded from the whitelist.
• 2^nd,  you are part of an active project by the DFG, any German federal ministry (e.g. BMBF), EU (e.g. Horizon), or VolkswagenStiftung. The proposal corresponding to this project needs to describe HPC resource requirements and discuss numerical methods.
• 3^rd, as evidence, you need to upload the corresponding project proposal and its review report to the JARDS 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 specific supercomputercurrent 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 HLRN NHR@ZIB computing center was not mentioned in relevant publications.
• Cut & paste of previous proposals.

In case of questions, please contact your consultant.

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Kurzbeschreibung Kurzbeschreibung

Public

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Abstract

All present, compute projects that have been successfully reviewed by the Scientific Board are listed on the project list. Each proposal for a compute project needs to submit a public abstract in PDF format based on the public abstract template (English/German). It should be generally understandable.

The abstract is written in English or in German and should contain about 2 pages.

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Signedletter Signedletter

Signed

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Proposal Summary

By the end of the online submission process, an email a summary is created by the service portalgenerated by JARDS which has to be signed and then either sent to the Office of the Scientific Board or reuploaded to JARDS. This also indicates that your application is successfully submitted. The project proposer is requested to print and sign the document and finally to send it to the Office of the Scientific Board.