How to apply for a computational cluster account

From Research Computing

Research computing accounts one the computational cluster are available to CUNY doctoral faculty and their doctoral students.

To apply for an account on the computational cluster, send an email to the Assistant Director for Research Computing (mailto:flengyel@gc.cuny.edu) with the following data: your email address, your CUNY Ph.D. program and your primary CUNY campus. Please include a brief statement of the research for which the account will be used; we use these statements to justify maintenance and development of the facilities. Requests for student accounts should include the name and email address of a faculty sponsor. Accounts are subject to research computing policies (http://research.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Account_policy).

Note: if the account application is approved, you will receive an email with your username and password and instructions on how to access the system. We will assign a username and a password that you may change using the passwd command. Please do not send us an initial password for us to assign. Our security subsystem may reject such passwords as insufficient and we prefer to minimize the transmission of passwords through insecure channels such as email. If you request a specific username, we will attempt to honor it, but depending on name collisions with other users, or whether we must adhere to campus-wide naming conventions, we might have to assign a username other than the requested one.