Please submit the complete project proposal for a compute project to the HLRN service portal. A proposal contains the four documents Stammdaten, Projektbeschreibung, Kurzbeschreibung, and a signed letter.
After submission the proposal is evaluated in a review process organized by the HLRN Scientific Board. Each reviewer obtains access to
- the project proposal,
the history of previous projects,
- contact data of the HLRN consultant, and
- aggregated statistics for NPL usage on the HLRN systems.
Stammdaten
During the course of online submission the project proposer needs to address meta data on the HLRN service portal. This includes information about
- the principal investigator (scientist holding a PhD),
- the person in charge submitting the proposal,
- project partners,
- other evaluations and fundings for the project
- usage of other compute resources,
- project lifetime,
- software requirements (please check availability with your consultant before),
- compute time requirements, and
- storage requirements.
Projektbeschreibung
The proposal need to upload a prepared document in PDF format, the Projektbeschreibung. This documents includes the main scientific content of the proposal and might be aligned to the following structure.
- Abstract (about half a page)
- Project description
- Problem description and aims of the project
- Scientific significance, innvation, expected results, utilization of results (about 1-2 pages for a.+b.)
- Mathematical modeling used
- Technology and tools for numerical solution (about 1-2 pages for c.+d.)
Preliminary studies/results of the preceding project (about 2-3 pages)
- Descriptions of research plan and work packages (about 1-1.5 pages)
- Computational facets
- Resource estimation
- Literature
- Appendix
- An abstract of the project (to be updated with continuation proposal and project end)
The appropriate HLRN LaTeX template can be downloaded from the HLRN web server.
The abstract will be published on the HLRN webserver. - For an initial application (new proposal): the project description
- For a continuation or extension proposal: the status report (progress report)
- Possibly attachments like publications (preprints) or others
The project description / status report / progress report should clearly describe the scientific purpose and goal as well as the methodology of the project. The requested resources should be comprehensibly justified.
The project description (for new proposal) or status report/progress report (for continuation or extension proposal) should comprise the following:
- Outline of the problem, aim and scope of the project and its subject-specific significance
- Outline of the mathematical and information technology aspects
- Outline of the applied or planned algorithmic, mathematical, and numerical methods and solution procedures
- Statements about the particular suitability of parallel computers for working on the problem
- Statements about the degree of parallelism and expected scalability behaviour (performance increase with increasing number of processors)
- Description and results of preparatory work (new proposal) or status report/progress report on the work accomplished in the previous project period (continuation or extension proposal); references and preprints (continuation proposal)
- Sound and comprehensible estimate of the requested resources (computing time, memory, temporary and permanent storage space) that should be supported through experiences or test computations on the HLRN or other comparable computer systems; the intended use of resources may be given in a monthly or quarterly table.
Projects with extended data storage requirements should give a detailed description of the I/O behaviour of the application (data management, amount and size of files generated during typical runs, I/O strategy used (global or task-local I/O, MPI I/O, netCDF, HDF5, etc.)). An estimate of the storage requirements should be made for scratch diskspace and tape storage for backup. Further, estimates for data transfer volume to tape and to the compute system should be given.- Estimated duration of the project
The proposal should not exceed 10 pages. It can be submitted in English or German. A commented overview with examples can be found in the appplication workflow (PDF, in German only)
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In case of questions regarding the required documents please contact your HLRN consultant .
Kurzbeschreibung
- Download: HLRNAbstractTemplate.zip: HLRN project abstract - template pack
Signed letter
By the end of the online submission a letter in PDF format is created by the HLRN service portal. The project proposer is requested to print and sign the document and finally to send it to the Office of the Scientific Board.