If you would like to request an account, please select one of the following options:
Research Staff and Students
You should apply for a regular user account if all of the following are true:
- You are a research staff member or student working for a Rice research faculty member
- Your sponsoring faculty member has applied for a sponsor account
- You have a valid Rice NetID; i.e. you can log in successfully at WhooRU
Research Faculty of Rice University
You should apply for a research sponsor account if all of the following are true:
- You are a Rice research faculty member
- You would like a cluster account for yourself AND/OR you would like to sponsor members of your research group
- You have a valid Rice NetID; i.e. you can log in successfully at WhooRU
- You have read and agree to the Research Account Management Fee Schedule
If you already have a Sponsor account and are trying to find the login to approve requests or revoke accounts, it is https://www.crc.rice.edu/agreement/.
Guest/Academic Visitor Accounts
If you are an external collaborator or visitor who is not directly affiliated with Rice University, you will need to become an "Academic Visitor" and obtain a Rice NetID in order to access CRC resources. To achieve this status, your Research sponsor will need to register you via the Visitor Management System. Once the Visitor process is completed and your NetID is created, simply apply for a regular user account as described above.
Class Accounts
Faculty members teaching a course requiring class use of one or more of the shared clusters should submit a request through the help desk detailing the following:
- Course short name (e.g. COMP101)
- If the class is cross-listed
- List of systems required for the class
- Details of any node/partition reservations needed for the class
- Any software not already present on the system that will be required for the class
- Desired starting date for account access
- Desired date for access termination (please don't forget to include time to complete final exams/projects if this applies)
Important:
- Students do not need to apply directly for their own class accounts. Individual student accounts will be created automatically when the instructor applies for the class account as above.
- Students will receive emails from the account creation system once the accounts are ready.
- Students when submitting jobs, students should prefix the name of the job with the class short name (e.g. COMP101)
- Students should verify their job submission scripts use their correct email address in order to receive job status notifications.
