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The first step is to get a username on our database and a password to enter our HPC clusters.

1.  Register to our userDB database at userdb.hpc.cineca.it by clicking on "Create a New User" button and filling the required fields.
2.  Once you get access, complete the info on your user page by uploading an Identity Card and completing in the Documents for HPC tab, then complete the info about your Institution and check your Personal Data and Institution.
   

This step alone does not grant you access to our clusters. You also need to be associated with an account that has budget resources with "cpu-hours" to be used in the clusters.

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 you are member 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 "Submit" on your userDB personal HPC Access 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 Once logged you will be asked to change your password using “passwd” command(you can always change your password later on with "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.