Requesting an account
To request an account, please send an e-mail to coka-admin@fe.infn.it with Subject: “Account Request”, using your institutional e-mail address, specifying in the mail body your Name and Surname (plus Name and Surname of your supervisor if applicable), attaching your public ssh-key and giving a brief description of the resources you expect to use/need (e.g. CPUs/GPUs, software, number of jobs, length of jobs, etc.) and what you need them for. Please see below how to generate a ssh-key for your system.
In the COKA Cluster we do not use passwords, users authentication is managed by Public-key authentication. To know how the login process will be managed see: Cluster Login or in general to have more information on Public-key authentication: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
The e-mail you use to request the account will be added to a mailing-list which will be used only by the COKA Cluster administrators to inform users about the Cluster status (e.g. Shutdowns due to maintenance, hardware failures, newly installed software, ecc…)