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Account registration DLR Employees

Access to terrabyte is currently limited to employees of DLR, DLR partner institutions, and Bavarian research institutions (regular users of Leibniz Supercomputing Center - LRZ).

For the time being, access to terrabyte is at no charge. In the future, inter-company invoicing may become necessary but no definite plans exist at the moment.

Information

DLR employees get instant access to our compute resources after registration (it takes some time until all settings have trickled through, see Remarks below), but are in the lowest job submission priority class by default. This is fine for testing and most single users, but if you are going to use terrabyte in a scientific project with collaborators or for operational purposes, you should apply for a terrabyte project

Self-registration service for DLR members​

  1. The self-registration can be performed via https://register.terrabyte.lrz.de.

  2. You are first directed to the DFN-AAI, where you have to select "DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt" from the drop down list

DFN Login

  1. As the registration is utilizing Single-Sign-On for authentication providing a seamless and secure login experience across multiple services, you are then directed to the DLR sign in site. DLR Users should be autologged in. Otherwise provide your DLR credentials (username and password) to log in. You can now proceed with the next step to finish the registration.

Identity Provider Login

Service Provider Lookup :::

  1. After successful creation of your user account, you will be prompted to define a new password on the LRZ IDM Portal. Click on "OK, automatisch im IDM-Portal anmelden". You will be guided through all further steps. During this process, you have to comply with the export control regulations. Completing this process is absolutely mandatory! Otherwise you will have no access to our systems.

LRZ IDM

Remarks

  • Please note your user ID ("LRZ-Kennung") AND the intermediate password ("vorübergehendes Startpasswort")! While you need your user ID for every login on our systems, you may need the intermediate password to complete the registration process on the LRZ IDM Portal e.g. in case your internet connection gets interrupted during the registration procedure.

  • After successful completion of the registration process, the automatic file system provision procedure will create your HOME directory after a delay of about one hour. Please do not log into the login node before that time.

  • To submit an HPC job or to start an interactive application in the terrabyte Portal, your user account needs to be added to the HPC SLURM permission database. This sync happens every few hours, so please be patient.

  • You also need to set up 2FA before you are able to log in to our services. Please be aware that it might take some time after the creation of the account and the finalization of the registration process, until you can set up 2FA.

Reactivating account

Your terrabyte account is tied to your DLR Account. If your DLR Account becomes inactive your terrabyte account will also be suspended. If this was a short term glich and your DLR account becomes active again you can rerun thos registration workflow to reactivate your terrabyte account