Accessing your Gadi project

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is a services facility that provides high performance computing (HPC), cloud and data services to Australian researchers.

Gadi is the name of NCI’s HPC facility, located at ANU (Canberra). The system is suitable for:

Resources

Set up your NCI Account

All new users must create their account through the NCI online self service portal. To create your account you will need the following information:

  • Your Name
  • Institutional email address (Gmail, Hotmail, etc. are not accepted)
  • Mobile phone number
  • Either:
    • NCI project code of an existing project you wish to join
    • A new project proposal to be assessed by a Scheme Manager to determine if they will grant your project time

Note that resources at NCI are allocated to projects and not to individual users.

Complete all steps below to set up an NCI account:

  1. Click on ‘Sign up’ link on the NCI online self service portal:

  2. Accept the terms and conditions:

  3. Provide your personal details:

  4. Provide details on the project you’ll be working on. Select I need to join one or more existing projects. Ask Marina for your group’s project code to write in the Projects menu:

  5. Select University of Sydney as you institution:

Your username will become active when a project Lead CI approves your request to join their project, or when a Scheme Manager approves your new project proposal. You will receive a confirmation email from the Mancini system when your username is activated.

Manage your NCI Account

You can manage your account details and request access to new or existing projects through the NCI online self service portal.

Once your access to your group’s Gadi project has been confirmed, you can set up your computer and log in to Gadi. See the setup instructions for how to log in to the HPC system.

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