JSC Test

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JSC Test Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

www.fz-juelich.de/en/jsc/systems/supercomputers/call-for-app · national HPC allocation · compute/jsc-test · JSON · compare

Free tier	Test projects grant a computing-time budget on JURECA, the JUWELS cluster or the JUPITER Booster for up to four months, optionally with about two person-weeks of expert support from a JSC Simulation and Data Lab, with applications accepted throughout the year. unit none; metered on wall-clock; exploratory / test allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated Applications may be filed only by applicants employed at a university or research facility in Germany, so the nationality bar is zero and the German employment bar is absolute. source Applications may be filed only by applicants employed at a university or research facility in Germany, so the nationality bar is zero and the German employment bar is absolute.
Binding	write-gated Applications may be filed only by applicants employed at a university or research facility in Germany, so the nationality bar is zero and the German employment bar is absolute.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The two person-weeks of SDL porting support is worth more than the node hours for a solo applicant, and it is the one JSC tier that would help a code become competitive, but it is behind German employment.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	JSC publishes no core-hour figure for test projects: the page says 'a certain number of core-hours' and never quantifies it, so the field is null rather than guessed. The extended-support variant is the unusual offer, because a Simulation and Data Lab contributes staff time, which is the scarce input for a solo researcher. The explicit sentence that nationality is irrelevant while German employment is required is the cleanest statement of the binding constraint found in the German stack.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.fz-juelich.de/en/jsc/systems/supercomputers/call-for-app	'applications for test projects with or without extended support may be filed by applicants who are employed at a university or research facility in Germany (irrespective of the applicant's nationality)', quoted
2026-10-22	www.fz-juelich.de/en/jsc/systems/supercomputers/call-for-app	'a period of up to four months'; 'Applications for test projects on JSC resources may be submitted throughout the year'; SDL support 'around 2 person-weeks per project', quoted
2026-10-22	www.john-von-neumann-institut.de/en/links/gcs-nic-computing-	'Eligible are scientists with affiliations of German universities or research facilities. Here, the nationality of the applicant is irrelevant'; 'Test access to JUWELS for the preparation of Regular Project applications is available', quoted

More fields (1)

{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "national-hpc",
  "free_tier_kind": "exploratory / test allocation",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "NVIDIA A100 (JURECA-DC, JUWELS Booster), GH200 (JUPITER)",
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated