  System X

  SGI (Inferno)

  Sun (Dante)

User Accounts

System X Allocation Requests

System X is operated under allocation policies set by the university. The Allocation Committee is authorized to award time on System X to projects of sufficient scientific merit and potential impact.

To obtain an account on System X, please complete one of the following forms:

System X Allocation Request Form for VT faculty.
NOTE: Internal allocation requests must come from a VT faculty member. Students (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, or visitors) cannot be principle investigators and must have their faculty advisor submit an allocation request.
External Allocation Request for individuals who are not associated with Virginia Tech.

System X Allocation Requests

System X is operated under allocation policies set by the university. The Allocation Committee is authorized to award time on System X to projects of sufficient scientific merit and potential impact.

To obtain an account on System X, please complete one of the following forms:

System X Allocation Request Form for VT faculty.
NOTE: Internal allocation requests must come from a VT faculty member. Students (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, or visitors) cannot be principle investigators and must have their faculty advisor submit an allocation request.
External Allocation Request for individuals who are not associated with Virginia Tech.

SGI Account Requests

Faculty and Graduate Students may obtain accounts on the SGI ALTIX by completing the web based User Account Application Form. As part of your application request, you will be asked for your name, PID, department,address, phone number, system resource requirements, and for an abstract describing the research for which Inferno will be used. The inclusion of citations to related journal publications is encourage

Unfortunately, the SGI Altix 3700 does not support several significant software applications required by researchers at Virginia Tech. To provide support for these applications, the VT Research Computing Group has purchased Sun Microsystems servers. Dante is a Sun Fire v480 system running Solaris 9 which provides Virginia Tech researchers with access to high performance computing on a Sun Microsystems hardware platform and supports SAS, MATLAB, IMSL, and Gauss which are not currently available on Inferno. The system currently contains four 900 MHz CPUs, 16 GB memory, two 36 GB fiber-channel drives, and external storage on the Virginia Tech NAS.

Note: By default, an account on Dante will only be created if you require an application (such as SAS or MATLAB) or the IMSL libraries which are not currently available on Inferno; otherwise, an account will be created for you on Inferno. Accounts on both Inferno and Dante will be created if you require applications found on both systems. Shared disk space between the two systems is provided to facilitate file access.

Note: Submitted abstracts may be made available online at some future date via hypertext links from the VT SGI ALTIX webpage.

Accounts will typically be created within one workday of submission, but, occassionally, up to one week may required to complete user verification and account processing.

Sun Account Requests

Faculty and Graduate Students may obtain accounts on the VT ARC Sun Systems (Dante and Styx)\ by completing the web based SGI ALTIX System Account Request Application Form. As part of your application request, you will be asked for your name, PID, department,address, phone number, system resource requirements, and for an abstract describing the research for which the acccount will be used. The inclusion of citations to related journal publications is encouraged. Submitted abstracts may be made available on-line at some future date.

Note: By default, accounts will only be created on the VT ARC Sun Systems (Dante and Styx) if you require SAS, MATLAB, Gauss, or the IMSL libraries which are not currently available on Inferno; otherwise, an account will be created for you on Inferno. Accounts on both Inferno and Dante will be created if you require applications found on both systems. Shared disk space between the two systems will be provided to facilitate file access.

Accounts will typically be created within one workday of submission, but, occasionally, up to one week may required to complete user verification and account processing.