Procedure for Accessing the AMU Mesocenter for Training Purposes

1. If the project requires resource reservation

– The time slots for resource usage must be determined in advance.
– To ensure resource availability, you need to calculate the total usage requirements using the following formula:

Total cost (in hours) = ncores × nstudents × nsessions × nhours_per_session

For example: for a 4-hour session with 10 students using 32 cores each, this equals
32 × 10 × 1 × 4 = 1,280 hours. For 10 sessions, this amounts to 12,800 hours.

– It is recommended to include a safety margin for instructors and unforeseen circumstances,
as reserved resources are considered used, whether they are actually utilized or not.

– Reservations must be made at least 7 to 10 days in advance to ensure availability.
If you are planning significant reservations, please contact the mesocenter to confirm feasibility.

– Once the reservation is approved, you must provide:

• A list of students in .csv, .ods, or .xls format, including:
  • Name, first name, AMU email, and SSH public key in ED25519 format.

  👉 See the procedure for generating an SSH key.

• The accounts of participating instructors so they can be added to the corresponding Unix group.
• Student accounts and data will be deleted at the end of the project unless you make an
  explicit and justified request (e.g., continuation of teaching in a subsequent semester).

2. If the educational project can be conducted with standard accounts for students

– Submit a request for a standard project, for which you will be the manager.
– You can then add students as collaborators, allowing them to submit jobs to the
common queues. These jobs will start depending on resource availability.

– For a project involving more than 10 students, you can contact the mesocenter engineers to facilitate
the creation of student accounts and their addition to the project by providing a list of students in
.csv, .ods, or .xls format, including:

• Name, first name, AMU email, and SSH public key in ED25519 format.

👉 See the procedure for generating an SSH key.

– Once the project is approved, students will have standard access, following the mesocenter’s standard rules.