To apply for a Nutzungskennung/user account use the link Antrag auf eine Nutzungskennung/Application for a user account on the HLRN service portal. In the course of the account establishment two support members are assigned to you, a local consultant and a scientific consultant. National and international regulations limit access to the HLRN system for people originating from certain countries. For details, please read the document Supercomputer und Exportkontrolle of the BMBF and the information on the HLRN service portral.
Holding a user account you can
- perform test simulations to prepare a proposal for a compute project and
- submit a proposal for a compute project on the HLRN service portral.
Lifetime of a user account
If your user account is
- newly established or if the membership in the last compute project has finished, then the lifetime of the account is three quarters. Following this period access to the data of the account is possible during one fourth quarter. After the end of this fourth quarter the user account is disabled. In reasonable and exceptional cases, the lifetime of a user account can be extended. For that please contact your consultant.
- a member of a compute project the lifetime of this account does not finish.
Compute time of a user account
Holding a user account you are able to work on the HLRN system and to expend compute time accessing NPL accounts.
- The user account is attached to a personal NPL account holding a number of NPL, see Accounting and NPL for details.
- With the user account you have access to the NPL accounts of all compute projects in which the user account is a member in.
Further hints about user accounts you find on the page Policies for a user account of the user documentation.