Getting an account#
To use the SCITAS facilities, you need to create a user account. There are three main types of accounts:
- Pay-per-use account:
- Main type of user account.
- Group accounts linked to a lab or project.
- Pay-as-you-go: charged for actual use of the clusters.
- Student account:
- Available to Master students for their projects.
- Offers free numerical resources equivalent to 1,000 or 4,000 CHF.
- Courses – request of access to resources for HPC classes:
- Free of charge for courses and workshops.
- Research emergencies - request of priority access:
- Available for emergencies (end of thesis, conference or paper submission deadline, etc...)
Depending on the type of account, you will be able to run jobs on specific clusters:
- Pay-per-use account can run jobs only on production clusters Jed (CPU) & Kuma (GPU)
- Student account and Account for courses can run jobs only on academic clusters Helvetios (CPU) & Izar (GPU)
For all accounts except student accounts, which are individual,
one or more group administrators will be defined.
These administrators can add or remove users from their account.