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The smallest CSCS door, the Preparatory Project at 250 node hours, is also the one most often described as open, and the same postdoctoral-position requirement applies to it. A node on Alps is a GH200 Grace Hopper node, so a node hour is one GH200 hour rather than one core hour, which matters when comparing the 8,000 figure with the core-hour numbers elsewhere in this file; the corpus already holds LUMI with a similar Swiss-door restriction. 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