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

1. meta data
2. main proposal
3. public abstract
4. a signed letter

After submission, the proposal is reviewed by the external Scientific Board. Each reviewer obtains access to

• the project proposal,

• the history of previous projects,

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

Meta Data

During the course of online submission, the project proposer needs to address metadata on the service portal. 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 1200 k core hour per year, see Accounting in Core Hours), and
• storage requirements.

Main proposal

The main proposal

• needs to be uploaded as a prepared document in PDF format,
• is written in English,

• can be written based on the LaTeX proposal template v1.2. This template includes all relevant aspects like project description, computational facets and resource estimation.

Depending on the /wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/425995, the main proposal has to satisfy a prescribed layout. The layout is given in the following samples.

• initial proposal, layout sample with the two main sections
  • scientific part
  • technical part
• whitelist proposal, layout sample
  • with one main section only, the technical part
    
  • upload the proposal and acceptance of one of the funding institutions BMBF, DFG, EU, NHR, or GCS
• follow-up proposal, layout sample with the two main sections
  • scientific part (brief update) and reference to the initial proposal
  • technical part

To 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 supercomputer. 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 was not mentioned in relevant publications.
• Cut & paste of previous proposals.

In case of questions, please contact your consultant.

Public 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).

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

Signed letter (e-mail) 

By the end of the online submission, an email is sent to the PI by the service portal. 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.