This article is meant for managers (i.e. person of contact, PC) of compute projects. The article describes how to

• add additional (external) project members and 
• provide them with an HPC account.

To be able to perform these actions, you need to meet the following requirements:

• you need to be person of contact (PC) of an active computing project
• Your RegApp account needs to be linked with your JARDS¹ account. To make sure use SSO to log in to JARDS at least once!
  See also:
  • Important Changes for HPC Accounts – Usage of the NHR community AAI (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet)
  • Change Your RWTH RegApp Identity Provider
  • FAQ → Can I log in into JARDS for NHR using my home organization access (e.g. SSO or ORCID)?

To grant a HPC project access for external memebers, please follow the steps below.

Step 1
Log into RWTH RegApp (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet) and select Projects → My Projects (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet) in the dash board.

Step 2
Select the project you want to manage. If the project list is empty your RegApp account might not be connected to your JARDS account yet. (See prerequisites).

Step 3
Click the button Invite members.

Step 4
Fill in the form with the name and e-mail address of the additional (external) project member and click on the button SEND INVITATION. If the invitee does not have an HPC Account yet, they will receive an e-mail with a coupon which allows them to set up their HPC Account.

Important: 
If you are an external member yourself you might want to add yourself to the project here, so that you can set up your own HPC account.

Step 5
The invitee can now proceed to Setup the HPC Account with RegApp

Step 6
Once the HPC Account is available, the user can be added to the UNIX group of the project, allowing them to access the project directories and submit jobs to SLURM. 

¹Referring to the instance of JARDS where the project was applied for. i.e. either https://jards.nhr-verein.de (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet) or https://jards.itc.rwth-aachen.de (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet).