In the past, allocated resources were requested, granted, and accounted in normalized core hours (NCH). NCH used a factor different for each cluster and type of nodes.  

With progressing time, the system of NCH has become obsolete, since we now have clusters that greatly vary in computing capacity, i.e. CPU, GPU, memory, and determining the value of the resources of different clusters is a complex process that cannot be based on a single value.

As a result, the accounting policy has been changed from normalized core hours to node hours.

This means that in the future, it is required to apply for node hours of the specific cluster and node type.

You can specify the number of node hours requested for each platform:

a) Barbora CPU 
https://docs.it4i.cz/barbora/compute-nodes/#compute-nodes-without-accelerators
b) Barbora GPU 
https://docs.it4i.cz/barbora/compute-nodes/#compute-nodes-with-a-gpu-accelerator
c) Barbora FAT 
https://docs.it4i.cz/barbora/compute-nodes/#fat-compute-node
d) DGX-2 
https://docs.it4i.cz/dgx2/introduction/
e) Karolina CPU 
https://docs.it4i.cz/karolina/compute-nodes/#compute-nodes-without-accelerators
f) Karolina GPU 
https://docs.it4i.cz/karolina/compute-nodes/#compute-nodes-with-a-gpu-accelerator
g) Karolina FAT 
https://docs.it4i.cz/karolina/compute-nodes/#data-analytics-compute-node

If you have any questions, please contact support@it4i.cz