IT Center Changes

For all partitions we had to slightly decrease the maximum available memory. Please consider our documentation for all details.

In order to unify the resource allocation process and to avoid confusion, we will apply the following changes on October 2nd, 2024:

• If you want to apply for GPU resources, you have to use “k GPU-h”  (i.e., thousand GPU hours) instead of “Mio core-h”. This includes the detailed project description as well as the JARDS online form. For convenience reasons, the JARDS system will still calculate the core hour equivalent. Until the end of the year we will accept the old metric in your detailed project descriptions, of course.
• The views in JARDS.project (RWTH projects, NHR projects) will show the used contingents in “k GPU-h” instead of “Mio. core-h” for all GPU resources.
• The command line tool r_wlm_usage will show the used contingents in “k GPU-h” instead of “Mio. core-h” for all GPU resources (i.e. “ML partition”).
• If you act as scientific reviewer, you should recommend GPU resources in “k GPU-h” instead of “Mio. core-h”.

There will be no changes for the HPC (i.e. CPU resources) partition. Please note: The internal billing mechanisms will not change at all. Our Slurm configuration will still use a billing which respects the used memory and core equivalents of a node. Basically, the factor 24 between GPU-h and Core-h will be used.

You can find all limits for the different project categories on our website.

You can track any disruptions or security advisories that may occur due to the aforementioned change in the Email category on our status reporting portal.