{"id":7997,"date":"2024-12-19T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7997"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:10:30","slug":"new-call-for-spring-period-2025-sdu-employees-only","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/news\/new-call-for-spring-period-2025-sdu-employees-only\/","title":{"rendered":"New Call for Spring Period 2025 (SDU employees only)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many SDU researchers succeeded in receiving a DeiC national grant for HPC resources during the latest call. This has freed up local SDU resources, and we are therefore opening a new call to distribute the remaining resources for the first half of 2025 (1st of January to 30th of June).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current call is continuously open until we have allocated all available resources. We will allocate resources according to a first-come-first-served principle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that this call is for SDU researchers only.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice also that since this call is announced outside of the DeiC cycle of calls,&nbsp;<strong>it is NOT a requirement that you have also submitted an application to DeiC.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Available resources&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the present call, the following resources are available:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Type 2 \u2013 DeiC Throughput HPC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of HPC system typically has a large number of cores&nbsp;which can be a mix between cost-effective and calculation-efficient units. Type 2 also has the ability to handle large amounts of data and its main focus is on high-throughput performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three type 2 HPC systems available at national level for SDU researchers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?page_id=5578\">Computerome 2.0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?page_id=5520\">GenomeDK<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?page_id=5586\">Sophia<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The hardware accessible to SDU users for a type 2 HPC project is shown in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Computerome 2.0<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>GenomeDK<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Sophia<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Xeon Gold 6230 Cascade Lake, 40 cores, 192 GB&nbsp;<\/td><td>AMD EPYC Rome 7452, 64 cores, 512 GB<\/td><td>AMD EPYC 7351, 32 cores, 128 GB<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resources available to SDU for&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;half of 2025:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>1,200,000 CPU core hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Type 3 \u2013 DeiC Large Memory HPC&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of HPC system focuses on problem solving, with a structure that cannot be easily or efficiently distributed between many computer nodes.&nbsp;This is a type of system that is characterized by typically relatively few cores with access to a large globally addressable memory area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Type 3 is hosted and maintained at SDU. For the cluster specs check&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/type-3-large-memory-hpc\/\">here<\/a>. The user guide can be found at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.hpc-type3.sdu.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DeiC has decided to close the Type3 service<\/strong> <strong>and it is currently unclear how many resources will be available to SDU for the spring period 2025. You can still use the Type 3 service via <strong>the low priority queu<\/strong>e without an allocation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3>LUMI Capability HPC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>LUMI is an&nbsp;abbreviation&nbsp;for \u201cLarge Unified Modern Infrastructure\u201d. LUMI is one of the three European pre-exascale supercomputers part of the EuroHPC project and located in CSC\u2019s data center in Kajaani, Finland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on LUMI, check the official documentation&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.lumi-supercomputer.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CPU resources available to SDU for\u00a0the\u00a0first\u00a0half of 2025: 1,050,000 CPU core hours.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>How to apply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To access the HPC Type 2 and LUMI you must submit an&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Template_regular-project-application-form.docx\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Template_regular-project-application-form.docx\">application form<\/a>&nbsp;via our&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jira.cloud.sdu.dk\/servicedesk\/customer\/user\/login?destination=portals\" target=\"_blank\">service desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want access to the HPC Type3 resources and you have never used the machine previously, please contact <a href=\"mailto:support@escience.sdu.dk\">support@escience.sdu.dk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you need help with\/advice on how to write your application<\/strong>, please contact the representative from your faculty in the SDU eScience Center Operational Board:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Associate Prof. Zhiru Sun,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk\/en\/persons\/zhiru\">zhiru@sdu.dk<\/a>&nbsp;(HUM)<\/li><li>Prof. Hans J\u00f8rgen Aagaard Jensen&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:hjj@sdu.dk\" target=\"_blank\">hjj@sdu.dk<\/a>&nbsp;(NAT)<\/li><li>Prof. Christian M\u00f8ller Dahl&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk\/da\/persons\/christian-m%C3%B8ller-dahl#\">cmd@sam.sdu.dk<\/a>&nbsp;(SAMF)<\/li><li>Associate Prof. Martin Jakob Larsen&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:martin.larsen@rsyd.dk\">martin.larsen@rsyd.dk<\/a>&nbsp;(SUND)<\/li><li>Associate Prof. Parisa Niloofar&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:parni@mmmi.sdu.dk\">parni@mmmi.sdu.dk<\/a>&nbsp;(TEK)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many SDU researchers succeeded in receiving a DeiC national grant for HPC resources during the latest call. This has freed up local SDU resources, and we are therefore opening a new call to distribute the<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/news\/new-call-for-spring-period-2025-sdu-employees-only\/\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}