Account requests
To If you are not a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSW) or Naturalis, you can get a user account on ALICE, mail by sending a request to helpdesk@alice.leidenuniv.nl (mail request) and provide with the following information:
your name (REQUIRED)
your ULCN or LUMC account name. At ALICE, we will create a local ALICE account with the same account name. (REQUIRED)
your university or institute e-mail address. (REQUIRED)
your supervisor name (REQUIRED for PostDocs, PhDs and students only) or local host (REQUIRED for non-UL, non-LUMC users)
What do you plan to do on ALICE (1 or 2 sentences are sufficient)? (REQUIRED)
Do you plan to process sensitive data (related to persons) or other data that must be treated confidentially? (REQUIRED)
If your group leader or supervisor has access to private compute resources or maintains a project directory, do you need access? In this case, please specify them and ask your supervisor/group leader for confirmation.
The exception are
users from MI who are automatically given access to partition
mem_miusers from Institute Lorentz who are automatically given access to partition
cpu_lorentz.
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For students If you are a student, we need confirmation from your supervisor that you require access to ALICE. Please ask your supervisor to send us an e-mail confirming the account request. |
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For non-LEI, non-LUMC usersuser not from LEI or LUMC, If you do not have a Leiden University or LUMC account, we require confirmation from your host or supervisor at Leiden University or LUMC |
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For user from LUMC, Please also provide the department that you are working in. |
If you are a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSW), you can request an ALICE account through FSW-Labsupport using the following form:
FSW-Labsupport will review your project and assess if it is suitable for running on ALICE. If it is, FSW-Labsupport will send us a confirmation and we will set up the account.
If you are a member of Naturalis, you can request an ALICE account by sending a request to the Research IT Team at Naturalis.
Account password
Once we have created your account, you will receive an e-mail from admin@alice.leidenuniv.nl providing you with an initial password to log in
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IMPORTANT Make sure to change the password in our e-mail when you log in to one of the login nodes on ALICE for the first time. You can use the command |
Acceptable use policy
Compliance with University policy
Users of ALICE must comply with all University ICT policies, including Acceptable Use of Computers.
Resource policy
ALICE represents a unique resource for the research community. The computers have special characteristics that are not found, or are of limited availability, on other central computers. Characteristics include parallel processing, large memory, and a Linux operating system. The allocation of High Performance Computing (HPC) resources requires close supervision by those charged with management of these resources.
The login nodes can be used for small, short interactive jobs and for submitting batch jobs, but are not meant for running compute jobs.
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For the password requirements on ALICE and how you can change your password, please see this page: Account passwords on ALICE
Policies
By requesting an account, you agree to the policies governing ALICE. You can find all policies here: ALICE Policies