User Onboarding Process Overview
NERC’s Research allocations are available to faculty members and researchers, including postdoctoral researchers and students, at a U.S. based institution in New England. In order to get access to resources provided by NERC’s computational infrastructure, you must first register and obtain a user account.
The overall user flow can be summarized using the following sequence diagram:
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All users including PI need to register to NERC via: https://regapp.mss.mghpcc.org/.
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PI will send a request for a Principal Investigator (PI) user account role by submitting: NERC's PI Request Form.
Alternatively, PI can request for a Principal Investigator (PI) user account role by submitting a new ticket at the NERC's Support Ticketing System (osTicket) under "NERC PI Account Request" option on Help Topic as shown in the image below:
Principal Investigator Eligibility Information
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MGHPCC consortium members, whereby they enter into an service agreement with MGHPCC for the NERC services.
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Non-members of MGHPCC can also be PIs of NERC Services, but must also have an active non-member agreement with MGHPCC.
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External research focused institutions will be considered on a case-by-case basis and are subject to an external customer cost structure.
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Wait until the PI request gets approved by the NERC’s admin.
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Once a PI request is approved, PI can add a new project and also search and add user(s) to the project - Other general user(s) can also see the project(s) once they are added to a project via: https://coldfront.mss.mghpcc.org.
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PI or project Manager can request resource allocation either NERC (OpenStack) or NERC-OCP (OpenShift) for the newly added project and select which user(s) can use the requested allocation.
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Wait until the requested resource allocation gets approved by the NERC’s admin.
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Once approved, PI and the corresponding project users can go to either NERC Openstack horizon web interface: https://stack.nerc.mghpcc.org or NERC OpenShift web console: https://console.apps.shift.nerc.mghpcc.org based on approved Resource Type and they can start using the NERC’s resources based on the approved project quotas.