Getting an account

In order to use the SCITAS facilities, you need to create a user account, which exist in three main types:

• Pay-per-use account: main type of user account. They are group accounts linked to a lab or a project. This is a pay-as-you-go account, i.e. you will be charged for the actual use of the clusters.
• Student account: every Master student can request an individual account for their projects. An equivalent of 1'000 or 4'000 CHF of numerical resources is offered free of charge.
• Account for courses: free of charge account for courses and workshop.

Depending on the type of account you have, you will be able to run jobs on the affiliated 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)

Except for student accounts, which are individual, one or more group administrators will be defined and they will be able to add/remove users to/from their account.