Computational Cluster Programs

Sponsor Information and Responsibilities

All UCLA faculty members are eligible to become sponsors, and can sponsor themselves and other UCLA faculty, staff or students for getting login accounts on compute resources hosted by ATS.

Most of the communications for your or your sponsored accounts will be sent to you from accounts@ats.ucla.edu therefore in order to get a quick service from us,

You must set your email client to accept or whitelist email from accounts@ats.ucla.edu

We expect you will:

Approve/disapprove student's association with you;
Approve/disapprove the purpose for which user is requesting an account on ATS resources;
Supervise, to whatever extent you consider appropriate, your sponsored users' use of compute resources;
respond promptly to emailed account related requests;
tell us if any information in your profile (for example email address or status) changes.
tell us if you no longer wish to sponsor a particular person's account, for example student no longer associated with you.
tell us if a sponsored user is no longer eligible to use compute resources, for example if a student graduates and leaves UCLA;
notify us in writing if you have authorized someone else (e.g., your department's administrative support person) to act on account requests.

We hope you will tell us if you have any account related problems or questions, so that we may address them in a timely manner. The email address for this purpose is accounts@ats.ucla.edu.

All login ids on clusters hosted by ATS are governed by the Security Policy on ATS-Hosted Clusters which includes UCLA Policy 401: Minimum Security Standards for Network Devices.

Grid Identity Manager

We currently use the Grid Identity Manager, a web-based application, to keep track of user and sponsor names, preferred email addresses, and associated computer account information such as grid username, cluster userid and uid, cluster group name and group id, account renewal date and application status.

The Grid Identity Manager does not ask for or accept credit card information, UCLA student numbers, social security numbers, or other similar identity-related sensitive information.

The Grid Identity Manager uses the UCLA Federated Authentication Service to authenticate access, therefore you need to have a UCLA Logon ID in order to use Grid Identity Manager services, including making a request to become a faculty sponsor.

Automated requests to you from the Grid Identity Manager will time out in 28 days if you have not responded, and the requested action will not occur. For example, if an approval request for a new user account times out, then that account will not be created.

Here is a list of some of the most common Grid Identity Manager actions:

New User: You will receive an approval request for each person who initially applies for an account and lists you as their sponsor. Such requests typically come from your student advisees, or researchers working under your supervision.
Renewal: Each year on or near the date of the original account application, the user (student or researcher) will receive a renewal notice. If he/she requests renewal, you will receive an approval request. If a user renews with a different sponsor, his/her group will be changed to that of the new sponsor.
Expired: If an account is not renewed, it expires. When an account has expired, our accounts person will contact you about the disposition of the account and its files. If you agree, the account will be disabled and the user will no longer be able to login.
Deleted: An account which has been disabled for six months will be deleted. Both the account and all files owned by that account will be removed from the system.

Last updated: 17Aug2009