If you need to perform computer calculations during your research and you are unable to run these on your own system, there are a number of possibilities.
With the Computing Decision Tree you can fill in some answers and it will help you to find a good solution for the best service for Compute Facilities.
For information described in the columns see the text in the list below. The link of each item gives you more specific information:
- JupyterLab: are you an UT employee, teacher or student and you are looking for an environment where you can easily gain knowledge or use various programming languages for prototyping, education, research or self-study. Then use UT-JupyterLab environment;
- Virtual Research Environment (VRE). When you are looking for a flexible, efficient and scalable infrastructure for simulations and computations, you can make use of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). For more information and support, see this link or you can visit the VRE-Portal directly;
- UT-HPC. At the UT there are more HPC Clusters available. See this link to get more information about the HPC Clusters.
- Supercomputer-HPC. SURFsara is the Dutch national supercomputing organization that facilitates high performance computing infrastructure. For large computer calculations you can submit an application (funding/grant) for SURFSara HPC-capacity to NWO.
NB: (*) SURF HPC. The UT contribution for reserving future investments is distributed annually by the UT among its users.
For an indication of your computational tasks versus compute capacity see figure below:
