The new system is open – “according to our information, this is – immediately, without delay”: https://jards.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/jards/WEB/application/startpage.php.

Changes on the HPC

Small projects approved out of the new portal will get a new form of project name on the HPC:

l0003456

(l = “local”, followed by their seven digit ID, starting with 3000).

All other attributes, limits and ways to specify them in job scripts remain the same as before.

Advantages

JARDS (Joint Application, Review and Dispatch Service) is a web-based application portal already in use at RWTH Aachen, the NHR, the Gauss Alliance and several other HPC centers.

Behind the scenes, it uses modern and recent technologies, other than its predecessor.

Finally, with the JARDS system there is a “paperless” application process when using your professional/institutional mail address..

^{Please do not use private mail adresses in the new system!}

The application for and the handling of small projects is now almost the same as for NHR-N and NHR-L projects. Having applied for a small project makes it now much easier to apply for the larger project classes.

Old System

For completion and submission of small projects created before 2025-05-26, the legacy system remains open.

All intermediary or final reports for running small projects have to be uploaded into the legacy system, too.

Background

The old system for small projects in use since 2013 was an in-house development based on PHP und Typo-3, making maintenance and necessary adaptations increasingly difficult.

For example, OS upgrades to new major releases were objected by PHP/Typo-3's dependencies on old components and libraries.

The internal database's design was quite unfit for purpose, making invoking of projects for our Technical Review the slower the more projects it contained.