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Getting and Renewing an Account

This section deals with the eligibility for getting HPC accounts and the process to create new ones, renew existing oaccountsThis section deals with the eligibility for getting HPC accounts, the process to create new accounts, renew existing ones and touches on access policies after graduation fom NYU and access for non-NYU researchers.

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  • All sponsored accounts will be created for a period of 12 months, at which point a renewal process is required to continue to use the clusters
  • Faculty, students and staff from the NYU School of Medicine require the sponsorship of an eligible NYU faculty member to access the NYU HPC clusters
  • Non-NYU Researchers who are collaborating with NYU researchers must obtain an affiliate status before applying for an NYU HPC account

Who is eligible for an NYU HPC account ?​

NYU HPC clusters and related resources are available to full-time NYU faculty and to all NYU staff and, students with sponsorship from a full-time NYU faculty.

Getting a new account on the NYU HPC clusters​

To request an NYU HPC account please log in to NYU Identity Management service and follow the link to "Request HPC account". We have a walkthrough of how to [request an account through IIQ]. If you are a student, alumni or an external collaborator you need an NYU faculty sponsor.

Renewing HPC account​

Each year, non-faculty users must renew their HPC account by filling in the account renewal form from the NYU Identity Management service. See Renewing your HPC account with IIQ for a walkthrough of the process.

Information for faculty who sponsor HPC users​

All full-time NYU faculty members (other than NYU Med School) are eligible to become sponsors and in turn can sponsor:

  • NYU Degree program students

  • Scholars visiting NYU

  • NYU Research staff

  • NYU School of Medicine faculty, staff and students

  • Other NYU staff/affiliates with a NetID

  • Non-NYU researchers with whom they are actively collaborating

If you need to sponsor an HPC account for an external collaborator (for example, for an NYU alumnus), please, request a "research affiliate" affiliation for your collaborator. You can find the instructions at https://start.nyu.edu/.

You can request a NetID for your student(s) or collaborator(s) at https://start.nyu.edu/pwm/public/. The request form has additional information about affiliates.

HPC faculty sponsors are expected to:

  • Approve/disapprove sponsored users' association with you

  • Approve/disapprove the purpose for which user is requesting an account on NYU HPC resources

  • Agree to supervise the sponsored individual, to the extent necessary, to ensure proper use of the NYU HPC resource and compliance with all applicable policies

  • Respond promptly to account-related requests from HPC staff

Each year, your sponosred users must renew their account. You will need to approve the renewal by logging into the NYU Identity Management service. We have a walkthrogh of the approval process here

Bulk HPC Accounts for Courses​

HPC bulk accounts request is disabled for HPC sponsors.

  • If you would like to use JupyterHub for your classes, please don't submit the form below, read [Jupyter Hub page] instead (the link to an intake form is also there)

  • Please fill out this request form for the course, we'll create HPC accounts for the class per request

  • Note that accounts created for courses last until the end of the semester, rather than a full year.

Getting an account with one of NYU partners​

NYU partners ([look for the list here]) with many state and national facilities with a variety of HPC systems and expertise. [Contact us] for assistance setting up a collaboration with any of these.

Non-NYU Researchers​

If you are part of collaboration with NYU researcher you need to obtain an affiliate status before applying for an NYU HPC account. A full-time NYU faculty member must sponsor a non-NYU collaborator for an affiliate status.

Please see instructions for affiliate management (NYU NetID login is required to follow the link). Please read instructions about sponsoring external collaborators here.

Access to cluster after Graduation​

If you will still work on a project with an NYU researchers after graduation - refer to the section above for "Non-NYU Researchers"

If you are not part of a collaboration, your access to cluster will end together with NetID becoming non-active. Please copy all your data cluster (if you need any) before that time.

VPN on a Linux machine​

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In order to request a new HPC account or renew an expired one, you need to be connected to the NYU VPN if you are working remotely, Please see instructions on how to install and use the NYU VPN. Linux clients are not officially supported, however we were able to successfully use openVPN client. Here are installation and connection instructions for a debian linux distribution with apt pacakge manager:

apt-get install openconnect
sudo openconnect -b vpn.nyu.edu

When prompted follow the instructions and provide your netID, password, and authenticate with ('push', 'phone1' or 'sms')

This method was tested on few Linux distributions and settings however is not guaranteeed to work in future.