bwHPC

Overview

bwHPC is a regional HPC service available to the University of Stuttgart for research and teaching. It offers a collection of federated Tier-3 regional clusters with NVIDIA and AMD GPUs (bwForCluster, bwUniCluster), a large data storage service for these clusters (SDS@hd), and a HPC-RSE consulting service (bwRSE4HPC).

Clusters

For details, refer to:

See cluster status page for outage notifications.

Access

Clusters

For University of Stuttgart personnel, applications are processed by the HLRS. See the relevant sections in bwForCluster access and bwUniCluster access. Each cluster can be used free of charge. However, the compute time from those in bwForCluster is tracked by a Rechenvorhaben (RV, German for compute project). See bwForCluster access for how to join an existing RV.

Storage

Sata storage on SDS@hd is tracked by a Speichervorhaben (SV, German for storage project). Follow the registration procedure at SDS@hd/Registration and request the entitlement sds-hd-sv from TIK. To check your entitlements, log into bwIDM, open the “Shibboleth” tab and look for http://bwidm.de/entitlement/sds-hd-sv. Use SDS@hd/My SVs to check which SVs you currently have access to. Get the SV acronym and password from the PI to register as a co-worker on SDS@hd/SV collaboration. Complete the form with this information:

  • SV Acronym: acronym of the proposal

  • SV Password: password of the proposal

  • Organization: University of Stuttgart

  • Institute: Institute for Computational Physics

  • Street: Allmandring 3

  • Postal code: 70569

  • City: Stuttgart

You will get a confirmation e-mail with the SV acronym and a link to the service registration page, where you need to search for the SDS@hd service, click Register, and accept the terms and conditions. Once access is granted, refer to the SDS@hd user documentation.

Consulting

The bwRSE4HPC consulting service can be requested for 6 months, or longer if co-funding is available (bwRSE4HPC/Development Projects).

Obligations

Use of the clusters, data storage and/or consulting services must be acknowledged in scientific publications.

For details, refer to:

Publications