General Support Info

This support information is for ...

... all the researchers in the state of Baden-Württemberg who (want to) use one of the bwHPC clusters (bwForCluster, bwUniCluster) and are interested in HPC in general.

This is a general information page for all support questions around HPC.

What to do first

Please search the relevant information on the web pages first:

  • See NEMO section and the corresponding links, if you have questions regarding this topic.
  • See bwUniCluster section and the corresponding links, if you have questions regarding this topic.
  • See bwHPC section and the corresponding links, if you have questions regarding bwHPC, bwForCluster and HPC in general.

Please try to use your work email address if it is possible. That way we can see that the requests are valid and see where you come from.

Users from Freiburg

We recommend that you use your university email address as your "preferred" address. You can change this in myAccount. The "preferred" email address is used within the bwHPC.

When contacting support

Please always use the correct support unit and add the following Information when contacting support:

  • Who are you (name)?
  • What ist your contact (email, university email address preferred)?
    • Where are you from (university, if not specified in e-mail address).
  • Who is your user at the cluster/university (username, incl. prefix e.g fr_)?
  • Which cluster does it concern?
  • If applicable: When did this happen (date and time) and where (node, e.g. login node, host, desktop pc, etc.)?
  • How to contact: Usually it is OK to use English and German when contacting support. The support units support both languages. While for the central ticket system and other clusters English is favorable to address a broader audience, you can use the language which is easier for you when contacting NEMO support, since all members of the ticket system speak German.

Usually the first information is given automatically, when you have configured your email client correctly. But this info ist still necessary when you use web forms, etc. We can find out this information ourselves, but it costs us extra time.