Getting an account at Purdue CMS Clusters

Purdue employees and students who want to get a login account on the CMS Tier-2 should proceed as follows:

1. Request your account at the CMS Tier-2: Please contact user support for getting account on CMS Tier-2 user interface.
2. Once you have contacted user support, your account will be created within two working days and you will receive a notification email.

Users (non-Purdue employees and students) who want to get a login account on the CMS Tier-2 should proceed as follows: 

To request a Purdue career account:

• Fill out the highlighted sections of the Request for Privileges (R4P) form and send it to physics@purdue.edu. Please cc cms-support@lists.purdue.edu on the email.
• The physics department business office will obtain the appropriate approvals for your account.
• Once your Purdue career acount is ready, you will be informed by email.

Then you need to do two things to finalize your account creation.

1. Contact ScienceIT via email at sciencehelp@purdue.edu or by phone at +1 (765) 494-4488 between 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST for getting your Purdue career account and password. It takes around one week to get this account.
2. Request access to the Tier-2 user interfaces and batch queues.  Send an email to cms-support@lists.purdue.edu to request access and cc the professor you are working under.

Users who have a login account at the CMS Tier-2, can login to the front-end machines using 2-factor authentication (BoilerKey) or SSH keys:

ssh -l <username> cms.rcac.purdue.edu