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Getting an account#

To use the SCITAS facilities, you need to create a user account. There are three main types of accounts:

  1. 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.
  2. Student account:
    • Available to Master students for their projects.
    • Offers free numerical resources equivalent to 1,000 or 4,000 CHF.
  3. Courses – request of access to resources for HPC classes:
    • Free of charge for courses and workshops.
  4. 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:

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.