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Application for a user account at HLRN

Necessity for using the computers of HLRN

To apply for a user account, the form requests administrative and technical information. First, please choose if the account is connected with a current compute project or if the account is applied for another reason, e.g. to prepare the application of a new compute project. If this option is selected, please enter the information in the text array. If the account is linked to a compute project, please select the project from the list.
The further requested information in the application depends on this choice.

Administrative details / personal information

Please enter here your personal information, gender, academic title, given and family names.
Please select the federal state in which your institution resides.
Important: In case you apply for a user account in connection with a compute project, the state of the project and your home institution have to be identical to those of the project.
After selecting the state, please select your institution from this list of known institutions of the selected state. Select "-- Other institute --" in case your institution is not listed.

When your insitution is already known to HLRN:

Upon selection of your institution, the computing center that is responsible for your institution as well as the cost class ("Entgeltklasse") are displayed. Please enter the information about your department in the field "Faculty".

In case your institution is not available in the list:

Provide the full name of your institution in the field "Faculty". The responsible computing center will be selected automatically according to the state.

Please complete your personal information (address, phone/fax numbers). Please ensure that your email address is entered correctly. The completion of the account application is only possible with a valid email address at your institution.

Technical details

Scientific area

Please choose your field of activity. In case your field does not appear in the list, please choose the field that is closest to your field.

Ressources

An application for particular compute allocation is only possible in a compute project, but not for individual user accounts. For each user account a default (personal) allocation is provided. In case your personal allocation is insufficient, please contact your consultant. (You will receive the name of the responsible consultant in the email confirming the activation of your user account.)

Software packages

Please choose the software packages that you will likely use. The choice is not binding but will help in the assignment of the responsible consultant who will be your first point of contact. Selecting software here does not imply that you will actually be able to use the software at HLRN. Due to license restrictions, some packages are not freely usable. However, please check the license and usage conditions with your consultant.

Account suffix

The first three letters of your user ID are automatically generated. You can propose further five characters for your individual user ID (only lower case letters and numbers are allowed, with the first character being a letter). The proposed user ID will be accepted if it is available. Otherwise an error message will request to choose a different name.

Comments by the applicant

In case you like to submit further comments with your account application, please enter them in the text field.

Legal statement

Upon submission of the account application you confirm the legal statement! Please ensure that you understand the statement.

Continue

At this point you can confirm the entries by clicking the button. This step only checks the entries, but it does not yet submit the account application! On the following page, a summary of your application is shown. (In case of a problem, please check the red box on top of the page and correct your information.)

Summary

Please check whether your data on the summary page is correct. Then submit the account application by klicking "Submit". You can also go one step back to correct the entries. Please make sure your email address is correct and note your PIN ("Personal identification"). You can see the PIN only here, while it is also entered in the HLRN database. It will never be sent by email. You can use it to e.g. reset your password for the service portal.

Verification link / first email

After you have submitted your account application, you will receive an email with a verfication link. This ensures that you can be contacted by the registered email address. Please klick the link. You may also copy the link to the address field of your browser.

Verification successfull / second email

After successful verification an email is sent to you holding the actual application as pdf document.

pdf document

Please print the pdf (color or b/w) and sign it. Send it to the address already filled in the file (it might be your institute's address or the address of your PI). Please read the legal statent. With your signature you acknowledge this statement. Your project PI or department will forward the account application to HLRN. You will receive a confirmation by email, when the account is activated.