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This page provides information on how to get an account on ALICE

By requesting an account, you agree to the

  • Access Policy

  • Acceptable Use Policy

  • Privacy Policy

Make sure to read those before requesting an account.

Account requests

To get a user account on ALICE, mail a request to helpdesk@alice.leidenuniv.nl (mail request) and provide the following information

  • your name

  • your ULCN or LUMC account name. At ALICE, we will create a local ALICE account with the same account name. For account requests from Naturalis, this is not relevant.

  • your university or institute e-mail address.

  • your supervisor name (for PostDocs, PhDs and students only) or local host (for non-UL, non-LUMC users)

  • What do you plan to do on ALICE (1 or 2 sentences are sufficient)?

  • 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 node802.

  • Do you plan to process sensitive data (related to persons) or other data that must be treated confidentially?

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.

For user not from LEI, LUMC or Naturalis,

If you do not have a Leiden University or LUMC account, we require confirmation from your host or supervisor at Leiden University or LUMC.

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

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 passwd for this.


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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