Accounts

Getting an account

To create a CHPC account, ensure you have an active University of Utah account (uNID). If you are a new PI, proceed to the Portal to create an account. If you are a research group member, request an invitation from your PI.

Make sure you have an active University of Utah account (uNID)

You must be provisioned at the University of Utah campus level with a valid, active uNID (University of Utah ID number) in order to be provisioned at CHPC.If you do not have an active uNID, please follow the instructions in the section on acquiring an active uNID.

Complete the CHPC account application

You will be asked to sign in at the campus level; you must have a valid, active uNID to proceed.

Class accounts use the same process, except that instructor can distribute a single invitation code to the whole class.

If you are faculty and wish to become a CHPC PI, sign to https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/resources/add-group/ with your University of Utah credentials, and select "Become a CHPC PI" button. Fill in the short form and submit it. CHPC staff will review the application and create the PI account and resource group.  An e-mail notification with basic instructions will be sent when the account is created. We like to sit down and discuss your particular research use case to make sure you can get the most out of your experience at the CHPC, please, contact us at helpdesk@chpc.utah.edu to schedule a meeting.

If you are a student, staff, post-doc, or an affiliate of the university, your PI can generate an invitation code that will be e-mailed to you, and which can be put to https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/resources/add-group/. If you do not have the invitation code, ask your PI to go to https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/invite to generate it. The invitation code serves as a PI approval, new account will be provisioned right after the invite code is submitted. An e-mail notification with basic instructions will be sent when the account is created.

Join or create CHPC resource group

Getting an active University of Utah account (uNID)

If you do not have a University of Utah account (uNID), you will need to acquire one prior to applying for a CHPC account.

If you are faculty from another Utah institution of higher education (e.g., USU, UVU, SUU, UTU, Snow College, Weber State University)

If you are a member of the faculty of a Utah institution of higher education and do not have a University of Utah account (uNID), you will need to send a request to helpdesk@chpc.utah.edu asking CHPC to request a uNID for you. Please include your full name, email address, and date of birth.

For faculty members, as part of the process CHPC staff will also request that you, as the head of your research group, be given access to request uNIDs for members of your group.

This request must be completed by CHPC staff.

You must use the correct date of birth, as this information is used to verify the identity of the affiliates (as the Social Security Number is not required). If false birthdates are used, the application will be rejected.

If you are requesting University of Utah accounts (uNIDs) for members of your research group or collaborating with researchers at the University of Utah

If you have already been set up as a CHPC PI, you may request uNIDs for your group by filling out an affiliate form. If you are collaborating with researchers at the University of Utah, please ask them to fill out this form on your behalf. Please see the instructions on our documentation.

Getting accounts for a class that needs access to CHPC resources

Creating a new class requires an addition of a new class resource group, https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/resources/add-group/. In the group request form, please, name the group as the class name, e.g. CHEM4500, that allows us to integrate the class group with the campus information systems. If you are from outside of the UofU, please, prepend your institution's name to the class name, e.g. USU-CS5400. Also fill in the expected class size, start and end date for the class, and any requirements you may have. CHPC staff will follow up with you via our ticketing system to address them.

To add students to the class resource group, the instructor generates an invitation code by going to https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/invite. The instructor can either invite the students individually, where each student gets an e-mail with instructions how to accept the invitation and get added to the class group, or generate a single invitation code for a selected number of students, and share the code along with the https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/resources/add-group/ page where the student enters the invitation code and accepts the invitation. If the student does not have a CHPC account, it will get created, if they do, the class group will be added to their existing CHPC account. The invitation code lasts for a week, and can be renewed if necessary.

When a student account is created, the instructor is sent a notification. In addition, to reduce the chances of misuse of the invitation code (e.g., a student in a class may give the invitation code to a friend who creates a CHPC account, despite not being in the class), the instructor can review class membership on the class group page on https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/. The instructor should periodically check this list against the class roster and notify the CHPC if there is a person not in the class who has been added to the class group. A few weeks after the class is over, CHPC will reach out to the instructor about removing the CHPC accounts created for the class.

Create a class group

What getting an account means

Every account provisioned at CHPC will get the following:

• Login (command line) access to all currently supported clusters. 
• Access to the cognizant PI's allocation (to run jobs at priority).
• A home directory with a default quota of 50 GB, which is not backed up unless your PI has purchased home directory space. If that is the case, then the space is backed up and the quota policies are set by the PI working with the CHPC.
• Access to scratch directory space provided for users to store intermediate files required during the duration of a job on one of the HPC clusters. Additional file storage can be obtained in the form of group space, purchased by the PI on a per-TB basis. 
• Subscription to CHPC-managed email lists. All accounts will be subscribed to the chpc-hpc-users@lists.utah.edu list, where we post outages, news, and other information pertinent to the research computing community on campus.
• Access to the CHPC issue tracking system (ServiceNow).

Deprovisioning of accounts

The deprovisioning of CHPC user accounts can be requested by the PI or the PI delegate via the group management section of https://portal.chpc.utah.edu/.

More information

Please see the Account Policies for more information.