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Application Guide

Application Guide

Nov. 13, 2025

Start a project

  1. Please apply for a User Account (which includes a Test Project) on Portal NHR@ZIB.
  2. Holding a User Account you can submit an application for a Compute Project.

For questions/requests, please contact the support crew support@nhr.zib.de.


Project type

SubtypeCompute time per quarter Review processCall datesMaximal duration
Test ProjectSmall75k core-h (up to 300k upon request)none
automatically created with User Account		rolling3 quarters
(informal extension upon request)

Compute Project		Normal300k - 5M core-hScientific board of NHR@ZIBrolling,
but quarterly schedule minimizes time
from project proposal to its start		4 quarters
(plus one quarter automatic extension),
after this a follow-up proposal is needed
LargeCPU: more than 5M core-h
GPU: more than 25k GPU-h (3.75M core-h) 		Scientific board of NHR@ZIB +
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