Access to Resources

In order to get access to the 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