HPC (institutional)

What is this?

Institutional HPC access provides large-scale compute through university clusters and national resources such as Snellius (SURF), typically for workloads that exceed standard remote environments.

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How it works (simple explanation)

You obtain project access and then submit jobs to shared cluster resources. Scheduling systems allocate resources based on quotas, policies, and queue availability.

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Concrete examples (tools/platforms)

• SURF – Snellius (national supercomputer): The Dutch national flagship HPC system.

• LUMI
  European pre-exascale supercomputer accessible to Dutch researchers via SURF.

• University-supported HPC clusters

  • TU Delft – DelftBlue

  • Eindhoven University of Technology – TU/e Supercomputing Center

  • Tilburg University – Blade cluster

  • Wageningen University & Research – Anunna

  • Utrecht University

  • University of Groningen – Hábrók cluster

  • Leiden University – ALICE cluster

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – ADA cluster

• SURF Grid infrastructure: A distributed computing system for large-scale, loosely coupled workloads.