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 bachelor and master students for their semester projects and master theses.
   • Temporary account with limited access to our academic clusters Jed (CPUs, Academic partition) and Izar (GPUs).
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:

• 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 Jed (CPU, Academic partition) & 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.