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