Application Process
Any qualified Canadian researcher may apply for a SciNet account at any time after having successfully registered with the Compute Canada Database. In general, a faculty member applies first and then any PDFs or grad students who report to them. Accounts have default limits but those users with especially large resource requirements may apply to the Local or National Resource Allocation Committees for larger allocations.
- faculty member (PI) registers with the Compute Canada Database
- faculty member (PI) applies for a default SciNet account for his/her research program
- faculty member (PI) applies to the National Resource Allocation Committee or to the SciNet Local Resource Allocation Committee for an allocation that is larger than the default.
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other research staff follow the faculty member, who must approve the requests by his/her students and postdocs.
After the user obtains his/her CCRI (Compute Canada Role Identifier) the user may request an account with SciNet. This is usually done directly from the CCDB site. If the user already has a local SciNet account then all that is required is to "link" the CCRI to the existing account.
The user will be notified, by e-mail, when the account has been set up, and will be instructed to contact SciNet staff for further details.