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Account registration DFN and EduGain Users

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.

While DLR employees get instant access to our compute resources after registration, users from other Institutions need to be in a joined scientific Project with the DLR and be invited into an existing terrabyte Project to access the terrabyte system. For these users who are not a DLR-employee, your account will be created, but you won't have instant access to terrabyte's compute resources. You must be invited into a joined terrabyte project. Nevertheless, please follow the step-by-step instruction for account creation below. Afterwards contact your DLR project partner with your new lrz id and ask him to invite you into your joined terrabyte project. Users that already have a LRZ account do not need to create a new account for terrabyte.

Self-registration service for DFN and eduGAIN 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 your institution.

DFN Login

Information

In case your institution is not listed there, you need to ask your DLR or LRZ contact person to get a manually created user account. Master users of a terrabyte project can add and create accounts. If in doubt, please open a ticket at our service desk: servicedesk@terrabyte.lrz.de.

  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 a login form of your Identity Provider. DLR Users should be autologged on. After providing your credentials (username and password) from your home institutioon (e.g., DLR, University, scientific institution) you can proceed with the next step to finish the registration.

Identity Provider Login

Information

Users from institutions other than DLR (within DFN or eduGain) might get an error message after the previous step (see screenshot below). If this is the case, you need to contact the administrator of your identity provider (e.g. university) to allow the terrabyte service to access the missing user attributes. The registration service of terrabyte is listed as a Service Provider within DFN-AAI (https://tools.aai.dfn.de/entities/).

Login Failure

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. Please also make sure to login to the LRZ IDM Portal to confirm your adherence to the usage regulations and Export control regulations.

  • You 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.