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There are multiple ways to get an account budget (see also UG2.2 Become a User):

• A Principal Investigator (PI) of an already existing account can add you to it in the UserDB portal;
• You can apply for your own project by submitting your proposal for a ISCRA, PRACE projects or HPC Europe Transnational Access Programme;
• if If you are a member on of an Italian research Institution with already existing agreements with CINECA (in this case send an email to superc@cineca.it);
• General users and Industrial Applications (send a request to superc@cineca.it)

Once your username has been associated with an active account you can request to have access to our HPC clusters by clicking on the button on your userDB personal page. (The button appears only after you have been associated to an account)

After we have granted you the access, you will receive two emails with the username and the password to be used to login. Remember once logged to change your password using “passwd” command. Our policies about password can be found in the "UG2.3 Access to the Systems" page.

Remember: Login credentials are to be considered as strictly personal, meaning that NO SHARING between members of the same working group is expected to happen. Every single user entitled with login credentials is to be considered personally responsible for any misuse that should take place.

Once you will have received your credentials, you can login the cluster in which the budget account, you are associated to, is active.

The simplest way is to open a terminal and type

> ssh <username>@login.<cluster>.cineca.it

(Windows users can find here the instructions)

Alternative ways to connect to CINECA HPC clusters are described in the "UG2.3 Access to the Systems" page.

Available clusters are Galileo and Marconi , Marconi and Marconi100 (m100) (UG3.0 System specific guides).

Some software, environments and compilers are already installed on the clusters and are available as modules (UG2.6 Production Environment and Tools).
They are divided into different profiles depending on the category of research. The command

> modmap

shows all the profiles, categories and modules that you can load.

To load a module type:

> module load <module_name>

If the module is inside a specific profile you have to load the profile before the module

> module load profile/<profile_name>

There are many useful options for the functions "modmap" and "module" that are described here.

You can also install your libraries and programs on your local folder by yourself or using python environment or spack environment (aggiungere link) manager. Please write to superc@cineca.it for any questions or requests about modules and software installations.

Our HPC systems offer several options for data storage:

• $HOME: to store programs and small light results
• $CINECA_SCRATCH: where you can execute your programs
• $WORK: An area visible to all the users associated with a the same budget account
• $DRES: An additional area to store your results if they are heavy. This space is not automatic. You need to request for it writing to superc@cineca.it

Important details and suggestions on how to use each space can be found in the "UG2.5 Data Storage and Filesystem" page.

In order to monitor the occupancy of your space, you can use the "cindata" command