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Requesting an Account

HPC accounts are provisioned on a per-cluster basis and granted with the permission of their principal investigator (PI). Accounts that are provisioned under each PI will have access to that PI's purchased resources and their own separate home directory.

Access to all HPC clusters are granted through the use of SSH keys. In addition, Hive offers password authentication using your campus passphrase. For information on creating SSH keys, please visit the access documentation page.

HiPPO

HiPPO

The High-Performance Personnel Onboarding (HiPPO) portal can provision resources for the Farm, Franklin, Hive, and Peloton HPC clusters. Users can request an account on HiPPO by logging in with UC Davis CAS and selecting their PI in the Select a group box.

Cluster specific information:

  • Farm: Users who do not have a PI can select the CA&ES Free Tier sponsored by Adam Getchell (adamgrp) group.

  • Franklin: No public/free-tier available.

  • Hive: UC Davis staff, faculty, and graduate students who do not have a PI can select the UCD HPC Sponsored Public Access (publicgrp) group.

  • Peloton: Users who do not have a PI and who are affiliated with the College of Letters and Science (L&S) can select the Jeremy Phillips (IT director for L&S) jeremygrp group.

How to request a new account, access to a group, or become a PI so other users can request access your resources.

How to request a new account on a cluster:

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  1. Login to HiPPO
  2. Select the cluster you would like an account on.
  3. Under Who is sponsoring your account?
    • If you are a PI, enter New Sponsor Onboarding.
    • If you have a PI, search for their name.
    • If you need access to the free-tier, see above (Cluster specific information).
  4. Under Who is your supervising PI?
    • If you are the PI, enter self.
    • If you have a PI, enter the PI's name.
    • If you need access to the free-tier, enter free-tier.
  5. Under Access Type, select one or more:
    • If you only need access to Open OnDemand, select OpenOnDemand.
    • If you need command-line access to the cluster via SSH, select SshKey.
    • Note: Hive allows SSH with campus passphrases or a SSH key, all other clusters require a SSH key.
    • For help generating a SSH key, see How do I generate an SSH key pair?

How to request access to another group on a cluster:

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  1. Login to HiPPO
  2. Select the cluster.
  3. Click the Request Access to Another Group button.
  4. In the first box (Select a group):
    • If you are a PI, enter New Sponsor Onboarding.
    • If you have a PI, search for their name.
    • If you need access to the free-tier, see above (Cluster specific information).
  5. Under Who is your supervising PI?
    • If you are the PI, enter self.
    • If you have a PI, enter the PI's name.
    • If you need access to the free-tier, enter free-tier.
  6. Click `Confirm.

If you are a PI and have bought, or are planning to purchase, resources:

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  1. Login to HiPPO
  2. Select the cluster you would like an account on.
  3. Click the Request Access to Another Group button.
  4. In the first box (Select a group):
    • Enter New Sponsor Onboarding.
  5. Under Who is your supervising PI?
    • Enter self.
  6. Click `Confirm.

How long does it take my account to be created?

After accounts, or account changes, are requested, the PI (or delegated sponsor) will need to approve it. Once that approval happens, accounts and changes should be live on the cluster within one hour.

I cannot see the changes (PI sponsor or group membership) on HiPPO

You will not be able to see any group or sponsor changes until Hippo synchronizes the data. Each synchronization takes place at the top of the hour from 8:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday.

HPC1 and HPC2

Users who are associated with PI's in the College of Engineering can request accounts on HPC1 and HPC2 by going to the appropriate web form.

LSSC0 (Barbera)

The LSSC0 cluster is being retired. Users who are interested in computing resources should create an account on the Hive HPC cluster.

Atomate

Atomate accounts can be requested here.

Cardio, Demon, Impact

Accounts on these systems can be requested here.