Obtaining an SGI Account

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.