Project Calls

• Available Schemes
• User Management
• Additional Resources
• Useful Commands
• Acknowledgement
• Deliverables

Available Schemes:

Schemes	Purpose	Eligibility	Application Period(s)	Allocation Period(s)
Call for Research Project	Research	For stakeholder institutes only.	March (Jul-cycle); September (Jan-cycle)	Jul-cycle: 1 July to 30 June; Jan-cycle: 1 Jan to 31 Dec
Call for Educational HPC Project	Teaching modules, workshops, competitions, project-based modules	For all institutes of higher learnings (autonomous universities and polytechnics).	April and October	1-year
HPC Resources for COVID-19 Research	Research related to COVID-19	Open to all		6-months to 1-year
Open Calls from Japanese HPCI	1. Urgent Call for Fighting against COVID-19 2. Call for proposals for research projects using the HPCI System in FY2021 3. Call for Startup Preparation Projects for Japan’s Fugaku Supercomputer	Open to all	As stated	As stated

User Management

For the addition or removal of users to an existing project, the applicant/owner/PI of the project should email [email protected] with the following information:

• Project ID
• NSCC user ID of the users

For the creation of an NSCC user account:

• NSCC User Portal – For users from A*STAR, NUS, NTU, SUTD, TCOMS, SMU
• Email [email protected] with the following details – For all other users
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Preferred User ID (limited to 8 characters)
  • Official Email
  • Designation
  • Organisation Name
  • Contact Number
  • Nationality
  • NSCC Project ID

Additional Resources

For requests of additional resources after project approval, please email [email protected] with the following details:

1. Project ID
2. New resource request requested
3. Reasons for the new request (e.g. how was the resources used, applications used etc.)
4. Calculations of the requested resource
5. Utilisation plan over the remaining months till the end of the project cycle
6. Deliverables achieved as of now

Please note that the lead time will be around 2 to 4 weeks.

Useful Commands

myquota : To check the storage usage for user’s personal home and scratch directory.

myquota -p <project id> : To check the storage usage of a project.

myprojects : To check the usage for all projects that user belongs to.

myusage : To check the user’s usage statistics over the past week, month and since system started.

myusage <project id> : To check the project’s usage statistics over the past week, month and since system started.

Acknowledgement

• The applicant will be notified of the project approval status before the start of the resource allocation period.
• Projects that have been granted resources are obliged to acknowledge NSCC in any published work. A sample of the text can be found in the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP); which details can be found below.

Citation: All academic journal or conference papers shall cite NSCC with the following:

“The computational work for this article was (fully/partially) performed on resources of the National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore (https://www.nscc.sg).”

Deliverables

• Users are required to update a brief report of deliverables achieved from utilising NSCC’s resources on the Projects Portal at the end of the project.
• Member(s) of accepted projects may be selected for an oral presentation, be required to do a poster presentation or submit a paper of their project at NSCC’s annual SupercomputingAsia (SCA) conference or its technical arm, Supercomputing Frontiers Asia (SCFA), in Singapore.

Updated 15 December 2020