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Renewal of a Regular Access in Dynamic Access
Since 10 January 2022, if your hour request as part of the renewal of a Regular Access file is less than 50,000 CPU hours and/or 50,000 normalised GPU hours (cumulative across the three computing centres), your AR file will become a Dynamic Access file. You will have less information to provide and the expertise will be carried out by the management of the centre(s) where you have requested hours. The hours allocated to the AD project will only be available after the expiration of your AR project (either 1 May or 1 November).
Access to the file(s) to be renewed
When you are on the homepage of the eDARI portal, you must first log in via the link "Log in or create an eDARI account" (at the top right of the page):
This opens a new page where you choose the type of connection desired ("Log in with an eDARI account" or "Log in via the Education-Research Federation").
Once logged in to the eDARI portal, you access the homepage of your personal space:
You then click on the link "Create or renew a file" in the green box "LIST OF GENERAL ACTIONS POSSIBLE". You will then get the list of files you can renew:
You tick the box next to the file number you want to renew and click on the blue button "Renew the file". This will take you to the first page of your Regular Access file to start the renewal after passing the page on the consent of personal data.
Entering the renewal
Project
If you do not need to make any changes regarding the project description, you can go directly to the hour request on page 2 without forgetting to tick the mandatory boxes.
Resources
Note that the numbers of GPU and CPU hours as well as the amount of storage are reset to zero. New values must be entered regarding your consumption for the new year ahead. Then click on the blue button "Next".
Your previous hour allocation, possibly increased by on-the-fly requests during the project period, ends after one year. Unused hours are not carried over from one year to the next and are therefore not taken into account during the renewal. Estimate the number of hours you need well when you renew the file.
This page deals with the renewal of an AR in AD because the hour request is below the thresholds indicated at the top of the page. If you are limited on the number of hours that can be requested, the request requires less information (nothing on the laboratory's resources, support for the project and IT details).
Research structure
On page 3, the process indicates the research structure associated with your previous file and simply invites you to continue with this structure by clicking on the blue button "Continue with this structure" before clicking on the blue button "Next". If you have changed research structure, you can at this stage proceed with the modification by indicating the new structure in the "Search" box.
Additional information
Finally, the last page "Additional information" will allow you to:
- change the number of resources (CPU or GPU) you plan to use simultaneously;
- indicate if you have the possibility to migrate your applications and environments to one (or more) supercomputer(s) of another centre in case of very high demands on the chosen supercomputer;
- modify the file information concerning the use of resources during the project period (consumption of hours regularly throughout the year or by period, etc).
To validate your renewed file, you must submit an activity report (in PDF format) on the use of the hours of the previous project. On this same page you have a menu to submit this activity report but you can also do it later from your personal space.
Then click on the blue button "Finish" to return to the homepage of your personal space which will have changed dynamically.
Note that at this stage of the procedure, your file is not yet validated. Validation is mandatory for the request to be considered.
Final validation
You are redirected to the homepage of your personal space, where a dynamic banner confirms the entry of the information and the procedure to follow to complete the renewal of your file.
To definitively validate your allocation request, click on the temporary file number TMPXXXXX in the orange box "LIST OF REQUIRED ACTIONS". This will open the following action menu:
If you have submitted the activity report on the previous page, simply click on the blue button "Validate the file" otherwise you have a link "Submit the activity report of the previous file (ADxxxxxxxxx)".
You will then find the final number of your file in the third light green box. You will notice that your file which before started with A0xx has become ADxx.
Attention:
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The first two light green boxes will only appear if your structure manager and yourself are part of the Education-Research Identity Federation (FER). You and your manager will then receive an email containing a link on which you must click to authenticate (which dispenses with depositing a manual signature) and finalise the procedure. Without this validation, your file WILL NOT BE EXPERTED.
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Otherwise, if your manager and/or yourself are not part of the identity federation, only the last light green box indicating the dynamic access file number will appear.
In this case, you will see in the orange box "LIST OF REQUIRED ACTIONS" the mention "For your resource request to be considered, you must submit the signed endorsement on the site for the file below:" and on the next line the clickable file number with, in brackets, the precision "Dynamic Access" or "Allocation A..." (regular access):
By clicking on this number, a page will appear dynamically in a blue box at the bottom of your personal space with a summary of the status of your file indicating the date on which you validated the file and that the endorsement has not been validated by IDRIS:
Then click on the link "Endorsement Management" and then on the link "Download the endorsement in PDF format" which you will print, sign manually and possibly have signed manually by your structure manager if this is indicated in the endorsement. Then scan the signed endorsement to have a digital version in PDF format.
Submit the endorsement in PDF format using the dialogue window with the "Browse" button. Without submitting this signed endorsement, your file WILL NOT BE EXPERTED by the IDRIS management. Once the endorsement is submitted, you will have the following information:
And higher up in your personal space, the mention that you have no further action to take on your side:
If you click on your file number at the bottom of your personal space:
You will have confirmation that the endorsement is indeed submitted for your computing hour request.
IDRIS will then verify that the signatures are indeed present and if so will accept this endorsement. This will trigger the expertise procedure by the centre's management.
FAQ and contacts
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FAQ: do not hesitate to consult the FAQ of the eDari portal.
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Contacts:
- For any problem related to the IDRIS computing account creation procedure, do not hesitate to contact us by email at gestutil@idris.fr.
- If you encounter a technical error related to the website operation, send an email to the email address svp@cines.fr.