Remember to acknowledge the use of national HPC
DeiC requires that researchers who publish results from calculations performed at one of the national facilities acknowledge and/or cite this in scientific publications, book chapters, posters, etc.
DeiC makes national HPC facilities available for Danish research and for researchers affiliated with Danish universities. If you, as a researcher who has made use of the national resources, publish results from calculations performed at one of these facilities, it is important that you acknowledge and/or cite this in your publications, book chapters, posters, etc.
Generally, for many HPC facilities, including if you have used a PRACE grant, it is required that you mention the use of infrastructure in a note in the scientific article you may subsequently publish. This is done, for example, under "Acknowledgements" or "Funding". It will now also be a requirement if you make use of the national HPC resources in Denmark.
DeiC uses the information to get an overview of the total number of publications in which national HPC resources have been used. All of this is to be able to document the scientific output from the national investment in HPC.
Using your number from HPC resource allocation (DeiC-XX-Y-NUMBER):
Below is how to refer to the use of the national HPC facilities. However, the final text and layout can be changed as desired. This is just a draft. However, it is mandatory to state DeiC-XX-Y-NUMBER if you have used national HPC (e.g. refer to grant agreement).
- Use the allocation number you should have received from your local Front Office at your university.
- The number must be inserted when publishing results depending on where it fits in relation to the template used and any requirements from where the article/report/etc.
Example referring to the use of HPC Type 1 granted by Front Office locally (L1) to a researcher at KU (See more examples at the bottom of the page):
- "This work was partially supported by DeiC National HPC (g.a. DeiC-KU-L1-291125)and by the "My_research" project (g.a. XX-YY-ZZ-283493)."
You have not been assigned an HPC resource number:
- Contact your local Front Office
- Please provide your username if you have already been assigned compute time at an HPC facility.
Test runs from the HPC Sandbox resources
- If you have been allocated rain time from the HPC Sandbox via eske.christiansen@deic.dk, you can send an email to the same address if you have not been given your DeiC-XX-S-NUMBER.
- See more about the HPC Sandbox here.
Front Office
Each university has been allocated a pool of resources. It is this pool that time is taken from when creating a new project to allocate time to users. The user must be assigned a DeiC-XX-Y-NUMBER (HPC reference number) that can be referred to when publishing results. One number is assigned per project.
Each university administers the local assignments and keeps track of this, which means that DeiC has no coordination of the numbers. The numbering is used as a reference to allocated HPC resources (See gray box). This "fund" number is assigned by the local Front Office (See the first three examples in the green box).
DeiC
An additional pool of HPC resources is administered by DeiC and is used as a so-called "sandbox" that can be applied for short-term projects, tests, student projects and the like. Read about access to the sandbox here.
Projects from this resource pool are named as shown at the bottom of the examples, and DeiC provides the number upon approved sandbox grant.
DeiC, refers to the infrastructure provider.
XX, is an abbreviation for university name. Examples: KU (University of Copenhagen), DTU (Technical University of Denmark), etc.
Y, describes the HPC allocation category and can have 4 values or more:
- - L, Local
- - N, National
- - S, Sandbox
- - I, International
NUMBER, is a sequential number that is "local" to those who assign it (e.g. Front Office at the university).
DeiC-KU-L2-000056 refers to local allocation of national HPC Type 2 to a researcher at UCPH (Y=L for local allocation of supercomputing), and the responsible Front Office assigns a project number after "L2", e.g. number 000056.
DeiC-KU-N1-000235 refers to national allocation of national HPC Type 1 to a researcher at UCPH via the national e-resource committee (Y=N for national allocation of supercomputing), and the responsible Front Office assigns a project number after "N1".
DeiC-KU-I-000006 refers to allocation of international HPC outside Denmark to a researcher at UCPH (Y=I for international allocation of supercomputing), and the responsible Front Office assigns a project number after "I".
DeiC-KU-S5-000112 refers to the allocation of "Sandbox" computing time on national HPC Type 5 to a researcher from UCPH (Y=S for sandbox allocation of supercomputing, which here is LUMI), and DeiC assigns a project number after "S5".
Allocation category Y: This also specifies which of the national HPC facilities is used and Y can take on different values depending on where the resource allocation comes from.
Type 1 - L1, N1 or S1
Type 2 - L2, N2 or S2
Type 3 - L3, N3 or S3
Type 4 - L4, N4 or S4
Type 5 - L5, N5 or S5 (LUMI)