Access

Access to the C3P facility is gained by opening / annually renewing an account. This is done simply by compiling the form that can be downloaded at the end of this page. There are different account types among which account referents can choose that gain access to different kinds of hardware, based on the needs of the research conducted.

Definitions

Account: is the username/password combination that gives access to one or more computational resources. A share quota is associated to each account, per cluster. The share counts the amount of resources that can be used with respect to other accounts. Such a quota enters in the fairshare (see Support page) management of the cluster queue, thus it affects how the priority of the job changes in time. The latter will decrease (or increase) as the account increases (or decreases) the usage of the HPC resources. Each account remains active for 1 year and can be opened / renewed by ensuring the amount reported in the table below. Three different types of account are available: base, extended and complete. They are all briefly described in the table below. Please, take a look at the Clusters page for more information on the available HPC resources.

Account referent: is the referent for the payment and the one responsible of the good behaviour of the users. An account referent can request to open more than one account, which can be of different type. Each account remains active for one year. After this period it will be closed except that the account referent explicitly renews the account.

Annual contribution

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Contributions to C3P

Come riconoscimento agli utenti che hanno investito nella manutenzione della struttura di calcolo negli ultimi anni, verranno applicate delle riduzioni al costo degli account in ragione proporzionale alla frazione di spese di manutenzione già sostenute dal responsabile di account durante gli ultimi 5 anni (2012-2017). In particolare il costo dell'account sarà scalato per il 50% di tale frazione3.

Account request

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