Tier1 Hortense in full production
(31-08-2022) Welcoming research and industry projects
On 15 March 2022, Tier-1 cluster Hortense went into production.
Hortense is the 3rd VSC Tier-1 cluster, following muk (hosted by HPC-UGent, 2012-2016) and BrENIAC (hosted by HPC-Leuven, 2016-2022). Tier-1 Hortense is hosted by Ghent University, and maintained and supported by the HPC-UGent team.
More technical information is available at https://docs.vscentrum.be/en/latest/gent/tier1_hortense.html
Access to Hortense is project-based and under supervision of the VSC (https://www.vscentrum.be/compute)
Projects awarded in cutoff 1 (7 Feb 2022):
| Institute | #projects | CPUhours | GPUhours |
| VUB | 2 | 9.110.000 | 66.816 |
| UGent | 7 | 21.634.096 | 47.740 |
| UHasselt | 1 | 3.500.000 | 0 |
| KU Leuven | 5 | 24.944.989 | 52.288 |
| VKI | 1 | 2.200.000 | 0 |
Projects awarded in cutoff 2 (7 June 2022):
| Institute | #projects | CPUhours | GPUhours |
| UAntwerpen | 4 | 6.842.820 | 25.000 |
| VUB | 3 | 7.849.400 | 0 |
| UGent | 7 | 24.372.945 | 38.400 |
| KU Leuven | 10 | 53.248.563 | 0 |
| VKI | 1 | 5.000.000 | 0 |