Administrative Information

How to get an account

User accounts overview

All users of HPCC resources must register with HPCC for an account described in a table below. A user account is issued to an individual user. Accounts are not to be shared. HPCC will communicate only via CUNY e-mails. to users from groups A to E. HPCC will communicate with users from F, and G account types via users' verified work account, CC to the CUNY collaborator (for F only). In addition if resources are available and per discretion of CUNY-HPCC director, external to CUNY researchers can obtain external research account (type G) at CUNY-HPCC by renting HPC resources and paying in advance the full cost recovery fee. Please contact the HPCC director for details.

User accounts for:	Type	Conditions	Renuwal cycles	Conditions	Mandatory conditions
Faculty, Research Staff	A	Renews every year at the beginning of Fall semester	Unlimited	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 15 days from renewal date, data in home directory is removed after 90 days. Backup data have rollover time of 30 days.	CUNY EID, Valid CUNY e-mail
Adjunct Faculty	B	Renews every semester (Fall/Spring)	Unlimited	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 15 days from renewal date, data in home directory is removed after 90 days. Backup data have rollover time of 30 days.	CUNY EID, Valid CUNY e-mail
Doctoral Graduate Students	C	Renews every year the beginning of Fall semester	14	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 15 days from renewal date, data in home directory is removed after 90 days. Backup data have rollover time of 30 days.	CUNY EID, Valid CUNY e-mail
Master Students	D	Renews every semester (Fall/Spring)	8	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 15 days from renewal date, data in home directory is removed after 90 days. Backup data have rollover time of 30 days.	CUNY EID, Valid CUNY e-mail
Undergraduate Students	E	Renews every semester (Fall/Spring)	8	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 7 days from renewal date, data and home directory are removed after 15 days. No backup of any data.	CUNY EID, Valid CUNY e-mail
Academic Collaborators	F	Renews once a year (Fall) for the duration of a project	Unlimited	Non renewed accounts are disabled in 15 days from renewal date, data in home directory is removed after 90 days. Backup data have rollover time of 30 days.	other institution EID, work e-mail and valid CUNY collaborator e-mail
Public and Private Sector Partners	G	No Renewal. Good only for the duration of contract.	NA	Account expires at the date of expiring of the contract.	state/federal ID, verified work e-mail.Advanced pay of full cost for rented resource.

Users who missed renewal for less than 90 days should communicate with HPCC via e-mail to hpchelp@csi.cuny.edu for account recovery. All users must inform HPCC for changes it their academic status. It is mandatory to specify information (or NA) on all points from below list. Please do not forget to provide information about past and pending publications and funded projects and information about your local available resources (local servers and workstations/desktops only). Think carefully about the resources needed and try to estimate as accurate as possible. Note that by applying for and obtaining an account, the user agrees to the HPCC End User Policy (EUP) and Mandatory Security Requirements for Access (MSRA).

Required Information for opening of HPCC account. Please provide information in all fields and/or mark NA when needed.

For All CUNY Faculty, Staff And Graduate Students (A ,B,C,D)
Full name as stated at the CUNY ID card (e.g. John Samuel Doe):
CUNY EID and valid CUNY e-mail (e.g. John A. Smith 22341356 jsmith@csi.cuny.edu):
CUNY Academic status ( faculty, adjunct faculty, PhD student, MS student, research staff):
Primary Affiliation within CUNY - campus name and Department ( e.g Hunter College, Biology):
Secondary CUNY affiliation if any. Provide campus name and Department (e.g. Graduate Center, Biology):
Name, department and college affiliation of PI/Advisor (e.g. John Smith, Biology, Hunter College):
If out of College of Staten Island provide description of local resources available. Please state NONE if you do not have access to local computational resources. Otherwise provide: College (e.g. Hunter) Type of resource (e.g. Department cluster): - number of nodes: - number of cores per node: -- memory per node: - total number of GPU for server: - number of GPU per node: - type of GPU (list of all types e.e. 2 x K20m, 4 x K80):
Resources needed for the project: - CPU Cores (e.g 1000): - GPU options (e.g 2 x V100/16 GB): - V100/16 GB - - V100/32 GB - - L40/48 GB - - A30/24 GB - - A40/24 GB - - A100/40 GB - - A100/80 GB - - Storage Space (above 50 GB) - Backup of data (Y/N): - Archive of data (Y/N):
Short Description of the project (up to 100 words):
Funding sources of the project (e.g. NSF grant #, CUNY):
Consent that HPCC will be cited properly (see our wiki for details) in all your published work including conference presentations, posters and talks.
Number of refereed publications relevant to the project:
Pending publication relevant to the project:
For All External (not CUNY) Project Collaborators and Researchers (F,G)
Full name as stated at the state/federal ID or EID from other Academic Institution (e.g. John Samuel Doe):
Affiliation outside CUNY if any(e.g. Rutgers University) and valid professional e-mail: ( e.g. John Doe, Rutgers University, jd@rutgers.edu):
Department at NON CUNY Academic Institution (e.g. MIS Rutgers):
Non CUNY-email (collaborator/external contact):
Status of the collaborator (Academic: e.g. Professor; Partner: e.g. NVIDIA lab):
Status of the external researcher(s) (e.g. principal architect NVIDIA):
Resources needed (example: Cores 100; Time 10 000 hours Memory per core 8 GB, GPU cores 2 GPU hours 100 Storage 100GB):
Description of available local resources. Please state NONE if you do not have access to local computational resources. Otherwise provide: type of computational (cluster, advanced workstation): - number of nodes: - number of cores per node: -- memory per node: - total number of GPU for server: - number of GPU per node: - type of GPU (list of all types e.e. 2 x K20m, 4 x K80):
Consent that HPCC will be cited properly (see our wiki for details) in all your published work including conferences and talks.
For All CUNY Graduate and Undergraduate Classes (E)
Full name as stated at the CUNY ID card (e.g. John Samuel Doe):
CUNY EID and valid CUNY e-mail (e.g. 22341356):
Valid CUNY e-mail. Public emails are not accepted (e.g. azho@cix.csi.cuny.edu):
Class ID (e.g. CS 220):
Class Section (e.g. 02):
College (e.g. Baruch College):
Name of the Professor:
Term (e.g. Fall 2025):

Upon creation every research user account is provided with 50 GB (and max of 10000 files on /global/u) home directory mounted as /global/u/<userid>. If required, a user may request an increase in the size of their home directory. The HPC Center will endeavor to satisfy reasonable requests. If you expect to have more than 10 000 files please zip several small files into larger single zip file. Please keep only wrangled information in your space in order to optimize use of the existing storage.

Student class accounts ( group d)) are ~~blue:provided~~ with 10 GB home directory. Please note that class accounts and data will be deleted 30 days after the semester ends (unless otherwise agreed upon). Students are responsible for backing up their own data prior to the end of the semester.

When a user account is established, only the user has read/write to his files. The user can change his UNIX permissions to allow others in his group to read/write to his file.

Please be sure to notify the HPC Center if user accounts need to be removed or added to a specific re group. Please read below a policies for accounts. Note that accounts are not timeless and non accessed and non active accounts are removed ( see below).

User accounts policies

CUNY HPCC applies strict security standards in user accounts management. HPCC uses “account periods”. Account period is one year for accounts in a,c,e, and f type of accounts and one semester for b and d type of accounts. All accounts are periodically reviewed and inactive accounts are removed. All student accounts will expire automatically and will be removed after each semester unless student’s advisor request extension of the student’s account. All user accounts for groups a,c,e and f must be renewed once a year by Sept 30th. All user accounts in groups b and d must be renewed within 2 weeks after each semester . Accounts not accessed for one account period and/or not renewed are automatically disabled/locked and will be deleted 60 days from locking. Delete of particular account means unrecoverable remove of all data associated with that account.

Reset Password

Users must use automatic password reset system. Click on Reset Password. Upon resetting the users will get their individual security token on the e-mail address registered with HPCC.

Close of account

If a user would like to close their account, please contact the CUNY at HPCHelp@csi.cuny.edu. Supervisors that would like to modify the access of their researchers and/or students working for them should contact the HPC to remove, add or modify access. User accounts that are not accessed or renewed for more than a year and one day will be purged along with any data associated with the account. User accounts that are not renewed on time will be locked and users must contact HPCC to get access recovered.

Message of the day (MOTD)

Users are encouraged to read the "Message of the day” (MOTD), which is displayed to the user upon logging onto a system. The MOTD provides information on scheduled maintenance time when systems will be unavailable and/or important changes in the environment that are of import to the user community. The MOTD is the HPC Center’s only efficient mechanism for communicating to the broader user community as bulk email messages are often blocked by CUNY SPAM filters.

Required citations

The CUNY HPC Center appreciates the support it has received from the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is the policy of NSF that researchers who are funded by NSF or who make use of facilities funded by NSF acknowledge the contribution of NSF by including the following citation in their papers and presentations:

This research was supported, in part, under National Science Foundation Grants: CNS-0958379, CNS-0855217, ACI-1126113 and OAC-2215760 (2022) and the City University of New York High Performance Computing Center at the College of Staten Island.

The HPC Center, therefore, requests its users to follow this procedure as it helps the Center to demonstrate that NSF’s investments aided the research and educational missions of the University.

Reporting requirements

The Center reports on its support of the research and educational community to both funding agencies and CUNY on an annual basis. Citations are an important factor that is included in these reports. Therefore, is mandatory users to send copies of research papers developed, in part, using the HPC Center resources to hpchelp@csi.cuny.edu. Accounts for users who violate that requirement may not be renewed. Reporting results obtained with HPC resources also helps the Center to keep abreast of user research requirement directions and needs.

Funding of computational resources and storage

Systems at HPC Center are purchased with grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), grants from NYC, a grant from DASNY and a grant from CUNY's office of the CIO. In addition all systems in condo tier are purchased with direct funds from research groups. The largest financial support comes from NSF MRI grants (more than 80% of all funding). CUNY own investment constitute 8.6% of all funds. Here is the list of all grants for CUNY-HPCC.

PFSS and GPU Nodes: NSF Grant OAC-2215760 (operational)

DSMS NSF Grant ACI-1126113 (server is partially retired)

BLUE MOON, Grant NYC 042-ST030-015 (operational)

CRYO, Grant DASNY 208684-000 OP (operational)

ANDY, NSF Grant CNS-0855217 and the New York City Council through the efforts of Borough President James Oddo ( server is fully retired)

APPEL, New York State Regional Economic Development Grant through the efforts of State Senator Diane Savino (operational)

PENZIAS, The Office of the CUNY Chief Information Officer ( Server is partially retired)

SALK, NSF Grant CNS-0958379 and a New York State Regional Economic Development Grant (Server is fully retired)