Account Requests

Table of Contents

  1. 1. How to get an account
  2. 2. How to login and change password
  3. 3. Where to ask for help

1.  How to get an account

To ask for an account send your request to helpdesk-hpc@sissa.it . You have to motivate your request clearly indicating:

  • Name of the machine you are requesting an account for.
  • Reasons ( parallel computing/serial computing etc..).
  • The name of a scientific responsible, who should be a permanent staff of SISSA.

2.  How to login and change password

See and read carefully the following page Login/Authentication

IMPORTANT:

Accounts must be renewed every year. Use the following command in order to see password/account expiry information:

chage -l <USERNAME>

3.  Where to ask for help

Any question or request concerning clusters should be sent to helpdesk-hpc ticketing system, mail to private accounts will be silently ignored.