Access Policy

Research Associates, Postdoctoral Researchers and Students

If you are classified as a Research Associate, Postdoctoral Researcher or Student, you need to get an account through a CWRU faculty. Please ask the faculty to add you once their HPC account is set up properly. The addition can be accomplished by using the online portal AMARA. Please note that only Faculty and the designated managers can access this website. A student does not have the permission to access the portal.

Checking Resources Available:

A quick way to check which your resources is to you use the "i" command, as it shows:

• Your accounts and the maximum processors at a time

• Your current jobs

• The jobs of your other group members

[<CaseID>@compt162 ~]$ i

****Your SLURM's CPU Quota****

           account_1      128

           account_2       24

****Your Current Jobs****

   JOBID PRIOR   ST     ACCOUNT  PARTITION NODES CPU MIN_MEMORY TIME_LIMIT NODELIST

15695974  1350    R   account_1      batch     1   1         1G   10:00:00 compt162

****Group's Jobs****

Account:account_1

   JOBID       USER PRIOR   ST  PARTITION NODES CPU MIN_MEMORY TIME_LIMIT NODELIST

Account:account_2

   JOBID       USER PRIOR   ST  PARTITION NODES CPU MIN_MEMORY TIME_LIMIT NODELIST

[CG]-Completing [PD]-Pending [R]-Running

The command "quotagrp <account>" which breaks down the account group's /home usage can be useful.

Member vs. Guest

Details about the Account Types and difference between Member and Guest access can be found on this page.