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HLRS test access
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- Free allowance
- A test account on HLRS systems carries a contingent of 100 Hunter node hours for up to six months, granted on a one to three page application that is explicitly not peer-reviewed; GCS Preparatory Access gives a larger contingent plus HLRS user-support assistance for up to one year.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedTest access is offered to potential applicants for GCS Large-Scale and rolling regular projects, which are German national calls for investigators at German research institutions, so the account presumes an eligible German home...
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | A test account on HLRS systems carries a contingent of 100 Hunter node hours for up to six months, granted on a one to three page application that is explicitly not peer-reviewed; GCS Preparatory Access gives a larger contingent plus HLRS user-support assistance for up to one year. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; exploratory / test allocation |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) Test access is offered to potential applicants for GCS Large-Scale and rolling regular projects, which are German national calls for investigators at German research institutions, so the account presumes an eligible German home organisation. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The un-peer-reviewed test account is the cheapest entry in the German stack, and it exists specifically to generate the scaling data a GCS regular or large-scale proposal needs. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | HLRS is the only centre found that states outright that the test application is not peer-reviewed, which makes 100 Hunter node hours the most accessible German allocation; the eligibility section heading still ties it to German research institutions. Hunter carries AMD MI300A APUs, so 100 node hours is a small but real GPU allocation. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.hlrs.de/apply-for-computing-time | 'Within your test account you can consume a resource contingent of 100 Hunter node hours on the granted hardware platforms. The project time is limited to six months'; 'This short proposal will not be peer-reviewed', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hlrs.de/apply-for-computing-time | page section heading 'For investigators at German research institutions'; GCS Preparatory Access 'may last a maximum of one year' and provides 'a higher resource contingent than ordinary GCS test projects', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.gauss-centre.eu/for-users/hpc-access/allocation-pgms | GCS large-scale threshold 'at least 25,000 node-h on Hunter', '5,250 EFLOP on JUWELS Cluster', '140,000 GPU hours on SuperMUC-NG Phase 2', equal to 2% of each system's annual production, quoted |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "national-hpc","free_tier_kind": "exploratory / test allocation","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "AMD MI300A (Hunter), NVIDIA A100 (Hawk)","gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field