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HPC Policies#

Everyone can get access and use the HPC-UGent supercomputing infrastructure and services. The conditions that apply depend on your affiliation.

Access for staff and academics#

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.

  • See Getting a HPC Account.

Researchers and staff affiliated with other Flemish or federal research institutes#

  • Includes researchers from e.g. INBO, ILVO, RBINS, etc.

  • HPC-UGent promotes using the Tier1 services of the VSC.

  • HPC-UGent can act as a liason.

Students#

  • Students can also use HPC-UGent (Bachelor or Master, enrolled in an 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.

Access for industry#

Researchers and developers from industry can use the services and infrastructure tailored to industry from VSC.

Our offer#

Research partnership:#

  • Interested in collaborating in supercomputing with a UGent research group?

  • We can help you look for a collaborative partner. Contact hpc@ugent.be.