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On the service portal you can submit a project proposal for a compute project. The service portal distinguishes two kinds of project proposals, see also Proposal Types and Proposal Format.
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Please choose to submit
- an initial proposal (including the whitelist option) or
- project proposal containing a follow-up proposal proposal,
see also Proposal Types and Proposal Format. A compute project can start at the beginning of a quarter only and is granted for a lifetime of 12 months. Longer projects should be split as follows: One year after your initial/whitelist proposal (1.), you can submit a follow-up proposal (2.). For every calendar year, the quarterly application
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