Who Can Use Nova

Any researcher on campus or class instructor can get access to Nova cluster for themselves and their group/students.

There are several ways of obtaining access to Nova:

1. Research groups can purchase nodes and/or storage on the clusters.  A form for requesting a purchase is available here.  Once the purchase is confirmed, the group's PIs are then assigned an access list for their group.  The PIs can add or delete members as necessary.  

   Users outside of the LAS College can use the following page to manage lists:   
          https://asw.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/acropolis/list/members for users outside the LAS College.
   LAS users use this form to manage lists:
          https://diy.las.iastate.edu/listman/manage
   Ivy College of Business users should contact Huifang Mao (hmao@iastate.edu) 

2. Research groups can also request a community allocation which has fewer resources available than for purchased access but is adequate for testing and proof-of-concept efforts.  The request can be submitted by the PI or by a group member. In the latter case the PI will still need to approve the request.  After the group has been added to Nova, the PIs can add or delete members as necessary at: https://asw.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/acropolis/list/members .
    
3. Class instructors may request access to the clusters for students in their class.  Students are given resource limits adequate for class assignments. 
    
4. Students performing research outside of a faculty-led project may request access to the cluster selecting research use, listing academic advisor or department chair as sponsor and providing details on the objectives and goals for the project. Undergraduate students performing personal research will have access only to scavenger partition and short-term storage /ptmp.