Researchers at SDU can now apply for so called “large projects” on the LUMI supercomputer for resources available from 1st of January to 30th of June 2026.
The deadline for applications is 1st of December 2025.
Large projects are projects that require more than 50.000 CPU-hours, 5.000 GPU-hours and/or 50TB of data every 6 months. Please note that a requirement for submitting an application for a large project at SDU is that the same application has been submitted to the national DeiC call. In order to ensure local resources for researchers, who did not receive a national grant, applications to SDU will be withdrawn in case the equivalent application receives a DeiC national grant.
You can find out how to apply for the national DeiC grant via the DeiC website (NB: application deadline for the current call is 16th of September)
If you missed the deadline for the DeiC national call, your application will still be evaluated but applications which were also submitted to DeiC will be given first priority.
NB SDU researchers can submit applications for less than 50.000 CPU-hours, 5000 GPU-hours (10.000 per year) and/or 50TB of data (a so called regular project) at any time. No equivalent DeiC application is needed for this type of project. Find out more about how to apply for a regular project here.
NB There is currently local SDU resources available for the fall period of 2025 (expiration date: 31st of December 2025). Find out more here.
Available resources
For the current SDU call, SDU researchers can only apply for resources on the LUMI supercomputer. A separate call will be opened for large applications for DeiC Interactive HPC later this year. It is not expected that the new DeiC General Purpose HPC service (to replace DeiC Throughput and DeiC Large Memory HPC) will be ready for users in spring 2026.
LUMI Capability HPC
LUMI is an abbreviation for “Large Unified Modern Infrastructure”. LUMI is one of the three European pre-exascale supercomputers part of the EuroHPC project and located in CSC’s data center in Kajaani, Finland.
Denmark participates in the consortium behind the LUMI supercomputer. Part of the LUMI machine therefore belongs exclusively to Denmark and is, in this sense, considered a national HPC resource.
For more information on LUMI, check the official documentation here.
CPU resources available to SDU for the first half of 2026: 1,050,000 CPU core hours.
GPU resources available to SDU for the first half of 2026: 69,000 GPU hours.
How to apply
For large projects, SDU researchers must send both:
- A completed application form for a large project, where they specify the amount of resources asked for. Note that this amount may differ from the national call.
- The application they used for the DeiC national call. A copy of an application to DeiC can be sent from e-grant to your email (see the e-grant guide available on the DeiC website).
Applications for large projects must be submitted via the eScience Center’s service desk.
If you need help with/advice on how to write your application, please contact the representative from your faculty in the SDU eScience Center Operational Board:
- Associate Prof. Zhiru Sun, zhiru@sdu.dk (HUM)
- Prof. Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen hjj@sdu.dk (NAT)
- Prof. Christian Møller Dahl cmd@sam.sdu.dk (SAMF)
- Associate Prof. Martin Jakob Larsen martin.larsen@rsyd.dk (SUND)
- Associate Prof. Parisa Niloofar parni@mmmi.sdu.dk (TEK)
