Eligibility

SciNet facilities are designated for Canadian researchers or those collaborating on Canadian research projects. In general, any academic researcher from a Canadian research institution with significant high performance computing requirements to support his or her research may apply for an account on SciNet. Faculty members and senior researchers at a Canadian university or research facility are eligible to create a "Default Project", more aptly called a "Program", and get a SciNet account. This person becomes the "lead researcher" for the program. A person can only have one program. In the parlance of the RACs, a "project" refers to a special allocation requested for a specific research, and a PI may have many projects. A "Resource Allocation Project" (RAP), other than the default, is for a specific research project. Graduate Students and PDFs are eligible to have accounts belonging to a Project, but are not eligible to create Projects on their own. Their supervisor must first create the project, even if the supervisor has no intention of using his SciNet account.