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- Fill out the Account Request form here on the TACC user portal
- Click on the email link you receive once accepted
- Login to the portal for the first time
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TACC Account Request
Requesting an account is straightforward. TACC essentially needs to know who you are and what username/password you would like. The only question that may be confusing is "PI Eligibility." In general, faculty and university researchers who already a PhD are PI eligible. More information is here: https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/allocations-overview
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After you fill out the Account Request form, you will receive an email with the title "TACC Account Request Confirmation." Within that email is a confirmation link. You must click on this link to confirm your email address.
Logging in the First Time
Every TACC account is reviewed by TACC staff to prevent spam, duplicate accounts, and unauthorized access. Once your account has been reviewed, you will receive another email with the title" TACC Account Request Update." Once you receive this email, you must login to the TACC Portal to finish the account creation. If you do not, you cannot be added to an allocation, nor can you use any computing resources at TACC.
What Next?
For this class, we will add you to an allocation that gives you access to Lonestar for the duration of this course with enough SUs to complete your homework. For your own research, the next step would be to create an allocation. Allocations are the way TACC awards computing time to researchers. More information is here: https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/allocations-overview
To login to Lonestar and start using the system, the last thing is to set up your own computer with a SSH Client and, optionally, a text editor that can edit remote files.