Access for staff & academics
Everyone can get access and use the HPC-UGent supercomputing infrastructure and services. The conditions that apply depend on your affiliation.
Researchers and staff affiliated with Flemish university associations
- Includes externally funded researchers registered in the personnel database (FWO, SBO, VIB, IMEC, etc.)
- Includes researchers from all VSC partners
- Usage is free of charge
- Use your account credentials at your affiliated university to request a VSC-id and connect
Researchers and staff affiliated with other Flemish or federal research institutes
- Includes researchers from e.g. INBO, ILVO, RBINS, etc.
- Usage subject to an agreement with Ghent University
- Not sure your institute applies? Ask us by email
- Every institute gets 1500 euro worth of compute time free of charge per year
- Corresponds to e.g. 90.000 core hours on cluster golett
- Use your 'welkom' account credentials to request a VSC-id and connect
- Didn't get an invite? Send us an email
Students
- Students can also use HPC-UGent (Bachelor or Master, enrolled in institute mentioned above)
- Same conditions apply, free of charge for all Flemish university associations
- Use your university account credentials to request a VSC-id and connect