Cluster Management / Students, Staff, and Faculty

Application 

• Role: User 
  • Instructions: Request a sponsored research cluster account 
  • Known Errors: User-level
• Role: Delegate
• Role: Sponsor

Support

• End-user Support 

Cluster Management is a web application that supports enrollment and management of student and delegate accounts by faculty-sponsors in Miami University's high performance computing (research) cluster servers

Application features and enhancements:

• Allows addition of Admin through Configuration and Authorization Management (CAM) application
• Allows access to four types of user-roles: Admin, Sponsor (faculty), User (student), and Delegate
• Allows different roles to access data of active/inactive Users and Sponsors
• Allows different roles to generate list of available Users and Sponsors according to eligibility
  • Allows null-Users to display in system as to match the records with YAML script
• Allows Admin to add Users, Sponsors; to convert a User to a Delegate
• Allows Admin to deactivate Sponsors and retain all sponsored Users under deactivated Sponsor
• Allows Admin and Sponsors to make/revoke Delegates; renew existing Cluster accounts

High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster accounts provide high-performance computing resources for faculty, staff and students. Users (Student, Staff member) with a sponsored cluster account and the role of User can access the Student-specific home page and perform the following functions:

• Request a new sponsorship
• Request an extension of expiration date     
• Review their Sponsor information, including Sponsor UniqueID, department code, and expiration date of account

1. Go to the Research Cluster Account Sponsorships page
2. Click the Request New Sponsorship link
3. In the first field, enter your reason for requesting a sponsored cluster account     
4. In the New Sponsor UniqueID field, select your instructor's UniqueID from the drop-down
5. Select an expiration date — usually the end of the school year
6. Click the Submit button

• Error Message: Failed To Send the email Requesting New Sponsorship, the sponsor does not have an email Id
  • Cause: Information for your selected Sponsor is incomplete
  • Resolution: Contact the Research Computing group by email at ResComp@MiamiOH.edu to report the issue

• Error Message: You do not currently have any sponsorships. If you would like to request a sponsorship or you feel you have received this message in error, please email rescomp@MiamiOH.edu.
  • Cause: User is allowed access via CAS authentication, but does not have an entry in the Cluster User Table
  • Resolution: Submit your request for a sponsored cluster account  

Users with the role of Delegate can access the Delegate-specific home page and perform these functions:

• Request a new sponsorship
• Request an extension of expiration date
• Sponsor a student (User)
• View list of sponsored students (Users)
• Generate a list of sponsored students (Users)

Users with the role of Sponsor can access the Sponsor-specific home page and perform these functions:

• Add a User or a Delegate
• Access data of active and inactive Users
• Make or revoke a Delegate
• View requests for sponsorships and extension via email
• Generate a list of available Users according to eligibility
• Renew an existing Cluster Management account

• Contact the Research Computing group by email at ResComp@MiamiOH.edu for questions about the use of the app or to report a cluster login issue

• I want to request a research cluster account
• I want to request a Redhawk cluster account
• I cannot log in to my cluster account
• I have a question about using the application
• I want to be added as a Delegate or Sponsor