Accessing UFIT RC Systems and Services¶

Access to HiPerGator and other UFIT Research Computing systems and services can be summarized as a combination of obtainting a user account, procuring computational and storage allocations to support your work, selecting appropriate interfaces to use to accomplish your goals, and complying with the security controls that prevent unauthorized access to the RC systems while minimizing the inconvenience to the users.

Obtaining a HiPerGator Account¶

A HiPerGator (HPG) account is a linux user account that can be used to access HiPerGator via ssh and web interfaces. It is a pre-requisite for performing any activity on HPG. Both access and resources on HPG are tied to user accounts and the groups (one primary group and zero or more secondary groups) they belong to.

HiPerGator user account is a user record protected by external authentication with an institutional account whether UF Gatorlink or Federated. We do not store and cannot help you with your account credentials or institutional account expiration beside

For more details and step-by-step procedures see the following articles.

Account Eligibility Criteria¶

To obtain a UFIT Research Computing account, you must be sponsored by a UF faculty member. Faculty members may sponsor students, postdoctoral fellows, or colleagues with whom they are collaborating on research. Collaborators do not have to be employed by or associated with UF. UFIT Research Computing facilities are for official UF research only and are not to be used for personal activities of any kind. See the HiPerGator Account Eligibility page for more details

Requesting a HiPerGator Account¶

Once you have a sponsor and have reviewed the above information, you can request your account. Note that UFIT Research Computing does not manage user passwords. GatorLink and Federated Login credentials are used throughout the system. Please see the Requesting a HiPerGator Account page for details.

Obtaining Resources on HiPerGator¶

New sponsors should see the Trial Allocation Request for details.

Current should see Resource Investments for details.

Note

Sponsors must maintan at least a minimum allocation to keep their group active and able to sponsor new users or perform any work on HiPerGator.

HiPerGator Security Controls¶

Using Multi-Factor-Authentication (MFA) with GatorLink or Federated credentials or SSH keys is mandatory for accessing all HiPerGator interfaces.

Filesystem permissions and access control lists are used for control of the access to directories and files on all filesystems.

RC Single Signon authentication and authorization mechanism based on HiPerGator group membership is used to control access to web application endpoints (urls) and all HPG web interfaces.

Additional controls may be set for certain systems and services. See further documentation for details.

As mandated by the UF Acceptable Use Policy, sharing your account and access information with another user is not permitted. This is in your best interest, since you can never be sure what another person may do while logged into your account. You are responsible for all activity that takes place under your account. If there are other members of your group who need access, we will be happy to create an account for them, provided they have the required sponsorship.

Account Expiration¶

In general, HiPerGator accounts are considered expired if:

There has been no activity on the HiPerGator account for 365 days.
The user’s GatorLink account expires

When either of these are fulfilled, the account in question will be removed from the system and all data will be deleted.

Accounts created specifically for use in a class will expire when that class section is finished and will be removed shortly thereafter. This also includes deletion of all of the account’s data. Please see Services – Teaching Support for details.

If you no longer need your UFIT Research Computing account, it is best that you notify us and make arrangements to preserve any data that you do not wish to be deleted.