{"id":8144,"date":"2025-08-13T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8144"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:17:18","slug":"update-on-call-for-second-period-of-2025-sdu-employees-only","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/news\/update-on-call-for-second-period-of-2025-sdu-employees-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on call for second period of 2025 (SDU employees only)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The call to distribute the remaining resources for the second half of 2025 is still open, but we have allocated some of the remaining resources. You can find the updated list of available resources below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current call is continuously open until we have allocated all available resources.&nbsp;<strong>Cut-off dates for applications are the 1st and the 15th of every month, starting from 1st of August 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>this call is for SDU researchers only.&nbsp;<\/li><li>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><\/li><\/ul>\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 1 \u2013 DeiC Interactive HPC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The type 1 system is mainly focused on interactive computing and easy access for users. The system is made of the YouGene cluster hosted at SDU (see cluster specs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/?page_id=5711\">here<\/a>) and the OpenStack cluster at AAU. SDU researchers can access the cluster resources via their&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/ucloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCloud<\/a>&nbsp;account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resources available to SDU for the&nbsp;second&nbsp;half of 2025:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>1,000,000 CPU core hours<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>50,000 GPU core hours<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\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;second&nbsp;half of 2025:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>955,000 CPU core hours.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\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&nbsp;the&nbsp;second&nbsp;half of 2025:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>950,000 CPU core hours<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>20,000 GPU hours.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\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\">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>For Type1 resources, please fill out a project application via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.sdu.dk\/app\/login\">UCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you need help or 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,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk\/en\/persons\/zhiru\">zhiru@sdu.dk<\/a>\u00a0(HUM)<\/li><li>Associate Prof. Himanshu Khandelia <a href=\"mailto:hkhandel@sdu.dk\">hkhandel@sdu.dk<\/a> (NAT)<\/li><li>Prof. Christian M\u00f8ller Dahl\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk\/da\/persons\/christian-m%C3%B8ller-dahl#\">cmd@sam.sdu.dk<\/a>\u00a0(SAMF)<\/li><li>Associate Prof. Martin Jakob Larsen\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:martin.larsen@rsyd.dk\">martin.larsen@rsyd.dk<\/a>\u00a0(SUND)<\/li><li>Associate Prof. Parisa Niloofar\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:parni@mmmi.sdu.dk\">parni@mmmi.sdu.dk<\/a>\u00a0(TEK)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call to distribute the remaining resources for the second half of 2025 is still open, but we have allocated some of the remaining resources. You can find the updated list of available resources below.<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/news\/update-on-call-for-second-period-of-2025-sdu-employees-only\/\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8144"}],"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=8144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}