HPC Projects

The roles available in RIT Projects:

• HPC Project Owner

• Project Manager

• Project Member

• Special Resource Approver 

• Usage Viewer

Depending on your role, you will see the corresponding interface at the Portal.

HPC Project Owner

• Can register HPC projects. In order to be HPC Project Owner you must be a faculty member. lease get in touch with hpc@nyu.edu to add you to the list of instructors allowed to create an HPC project.

Project Manager

• Project Owners may designate you a Project Manager. You may be a manager for multiple projects and multiple owners.

Project Member

• The project owner or manager may add you to a project.

Special Resources Approver

Approves access to specific HPC resources.  This role is assigned by the RIT team. If you believe you should be a special resource approver, but you don’t see that interface in the RIT Portal please email hpc@nyu.edu specifying the account and resources. 

Usage Viewer

Administrators for schools, colleges, centers, institutes, and other units  have access to an interface displaying the usage of projects that allocate part of the usage to that unit. If you believe you should be an usage viewer but you don’t see that interface - please contact as at hpc@nyu.edu 

• As Project Member you can 

  • Find out what slurm account you should use for slurm here by going to:
    Top Menu: "Use HPC" -> select project -> select resource -> slurm account name you should use in slurm Batch file, slurm interactive jobs, slurm OOD will be shown
    For example, it may show: "--account=pr_5_general".  Then you need to add this when you submit jobs on cluster: 

    •  batch file: add "#SBATCH --account=pr_5_general"

    • interactive slurm job

      • 'srun' command: add " --account=pr_5_general" after 'srun'

      • Open On Demand: add to "Optional slurm options" this statement: " --account=pr_5_general"

• As Project Owner, you can 

  • Register New project
    Top Menu: "Select "Register New Project" -> "Select a platform for the project":  HPC -> Input required info -> Press button

    • Note: if you don't see "Register New Project" in Top Menu but you believe you should have access (for example, you are an instructor of a course that uses HPC), please reach out: hpc@nyu.edu

• As Project Owner or Project Manager role, you can 

  • Edit Managers, please use
    Top Menu: "Project Settings" -> "Add/Remove managers" -> Select project -> Provide coma separated list of users' netids -> Press button

  • Edit Members, please use
    Top Menu: "Project Settings" -> "Add/Remove members" -> Select project -> Provide comma-separated list of users' netids -> Press button

  • Request access to special resources
    (note: general resource is available by default)
    Top Menu: "Project Settings" -> "Project resources" -> "Request / remove request for resource" -> "Choose resource name" -> "Request access" button or "Withdraw request" button
    Note: After that, you need to email the listed Approver

  • When you get a confirmation - you need to activate the resource for the resource to become available for members to use

Top Menu: "Project Settings" -> "Project resources" -> "Manage approved resources" -> "Choose resource name" -> Use the checkboxes to specify which resources should be active or not active -> Press button 

• • If you don't use the project any longer - Archive project. You can reactivate it at a later time

Top Menu: "Project Settings" -> "Archive / Reactivate" -> Select project -> Press button  to archive or reactivate project

• • To view details on all the projects you can manage/view go to 

Top Menu: "Projects details" -> "Select project type":  HPC
Here, you can see

• Overview: Consolidated view of all the projects

• Details for the specific project

• Usage data