Application Form for a Student Account on the UJRC

For students enrolled at the University of Johannesburg.
Students belonging to other institutions should first address their request to the contacts; a short support letter from an academic of their home institute would be especially welcome.

Please read and understand the Usage Policy ?, and follow the Short Security Course ?. If you have any questions or doubts do not hesitate to ask to the contacts.

(DRAFT)

On acceptance of this application, you will be given:

an account on glite-ui.grid.ac.za and osg-ui.grid.ac.za
100MB of disk space for your home directory
500MB of disk space in the scratch area
note that in the scratch area any file older than 1 week (DRAFT) may be deleted without warning
permission to submit jobs to the student PBS queue
- low priority
- maximum 10 jobs running at any time
- maximum 20 jobs in the queue at any time
- maximum 10 minutes of wall clock time per job
- maximum 2 simultaneous CPUs
- maximum total of 100 wall clock hours of computing time

If your project requires resources beyond those indicated above, please specify them in the form below, and ask your supervisor to send a brief support letter.

THIS FORM IS NOT YET ACTIVE, DO NOT USE

Student Details
First Name
Initials
Surname
Course	e.g. MSc Physics
Student Number
eMail address	must be an address @students.uj.ac.za
Login	Preferred username for login, max 15 letters

Supervisor Details
First Name
Initials
Surname
Department
eMail address	prefer an address @uj.ac.za
UJRC User	Is the supervisor already a user of the Cluster? yes no

Present Knowledge These questions are only for statistical purpose, to estimate the need of tutoring.
Have you used Linux/Unix before?	yes no
Do you have access to a PC running linux?	yes no
Do you have some programming experience?	yes no
Did you do, or are you doing, any course in parallel or Grid computing?	yes no

Project and Resources required
Research field	High Energy Physics Astrophysics Molecular Dynamics (Chemistry) Quantum Chemistry Applied Mathematics Numerical Studies (Engineering) other:
Description	Give a very brief description of the project and of how you intend to use the Research Cluster value
Primary use	simulations data analysis computing research other:
Access	Local cluster only South Africa National Computing Grid OpenScience Grid If you need access to Grid resources (either SAGrid and/or OSG) you will have also to arrange your User Certificate and Virtual Organisation membership following a separate procedure.
CPU Time	Please estimate how many CPU hours will be needed to complete your project hours
CPU Number	If your code needs to run simultaneously on more than one CPU, for example to use MPI, please indicate the minimum number
Disk Space (scratch)	Please estimate how much space you will need in the scratch areas MBytes
Disk Space (home)	Please estimate how much space you will need in the home directory area MBytes
Software	Software requirements: do you need any specific program, programming language etc? value
Notes	Other requirements or notes value

Acceptance of Usage, Security and Privacy Policy
I have read and understood the Usage Policy ? and will abide by its rules.	(confirm)
I have read and understood the Short Security Course ? and will abide by its rules.	(confirm)
I give my consent to the usage of the information provided in this form, for the handling of my user account and for statistical purposes, by UJ staff. The personal details provided will not be transmitted to third parties. Other data, in anonymous or aggregated form, may be communicated to third parties, including but not restricted to, research and academic institutions, UJRC sponsors and media	(confirm)

THIS FORM IS NOT YET ACTIVE, DO NOT USE When you click the Submit button below, the content of this form will be sent to a person in charge for accounts on the UJRC; copies will be sent to you and to your supervisor.

If you do not receive a reply to your request within seven working days, please query the technical contacts.

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