Hoffman2:Getting an Account

Back to all things Hoffman2

UCLA Grid Portal

The UCLA Grid Portal provides access to many clusters hosted at UCLA. By registering for an account, not only do you gain access to the Hoffman2 cluster and any other member clusters by request, but you also gain access to a variety of shared resources including matlab, R, Octave, Mathematica, FSL, and many more at UCLA and the UC system in general. Yes, the Grid Portal is a multi-university effort spanning from Northern to Southern California.

You will probably be amazed at the resources you gain simply by signing up for the Grid Portal. For further information, please visit the Grid Portal home page.

Requesting Hoffman2 Account

What you need

A UCLA BOL account, available for free to any UCLA staff, student, or faculty member. If you do not have a BOL account, head to the UCLA BOL services page. Click on "Create UCLA Logon ID" under "UCLA Logon ID Utilities"

Applying for the Account

ATTENTION: If you are a member of another lab or are a PI interested in obtaining Hoffman access, please see the section
 Becoming a Faculty Sponsor

1. Navigate to the Account Applications page.
2. Read over the application summary
3. Click "New User Registration"
4. Authenticate using your UCLA BOL username and pass
5. Fill out the form with appropriate information. Please read the information at the top of the form to familiarize yourself with the process of gaining an account. For Hoffman2, your Faculty Sponsor should be Mark Cohen, Alison Burggren (for Susan Bookheimer's lab), or your respective PI if they have created an account on Hoffman.

Proposed UserName

This will be the name you use to sign into the cluster

Select a Resource

For the Mark Cohen/Susan Bookheimer labs, choose "Hoffman2". However, you can request access to any cluster that is a member of the Grid Portal.

Click Submit and you are done. You will receive an email with a link to a temporary password. PLEASE WRITE IT DOWN. The link expires after 72 hours. You can change your password by going to Here.

Becoming A Faculty Sponsor

If you are a PI or Lab Manager interested in the Hoffman2 server, you will want to create a Faculty Sponsor account first. Also, if you are a member of another lab collaborating with the Cohen or Bookheimer labs, you may want to forward this information to your PI or Lab Manager. Faculty Sponsors can approve (or deny) applications for membership to their group. They also receive a group folder and a unique group id so their users can work and share data easily with each other.

1. Navigate to the Account Applications page.
2. Read over the application summary
3. Click "Request to become faculty sponsor"
4. Fill out the form with appropriate information.

Under 'Reason', about any generic reason is appropriate for faculty members. For example, "To perform fMRI analysis." will likely suffice.

External Links

• UCLA Grid Portal
• UCLA BOL Home Page
• Hoffman2 Home Page