Obtaining an Account
on VT ARC Sun Systems

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.