Access to Resources

The LSDF offers various storage resources acessible for employees of KIT, their partners and members of selected data projects. Using the LSDF For access to LSDF first read our LSDF Usage Policy. Contact Jos van Wezel <jos.vanwezel@kit.edu> at SCC. Please send the following information:

• Name, email, institute
• Other persons (name, email) involved in the intended activities who do already have access to Hadoop? (ie, do you belong to a group who requests access)
• Short description of the intended activities to be performed on the Hadoop infrastructure
• Tentative timeline (start, end, any intermediate milestones?)
• Your SSH public key if you have one. KIT users can use their KIT account.

For Hadoop usage please state:

• Expected nr. of jobs
• Expected running time of average job
• Nr. of map-tasks (and CPUs) per job foreseen
• Amount of RAM per job needed
• Expected disk space usage in HDFS

For use of Virtual Machines (Currently via Open Nebula) please state:

• Expected Nr. of VM's
• Nr. of CPUs per VM
• Disk space per VM
• RAM per VM