TRANSP Compute Server Access for Off-Site Users

Prerequisites for submitting TRANSP runs from Off-Site:

1. A FusionGrid Certificate
   • How to get a FusionGrid Certificate
     
   • Forgotten CA Password
     
   
   
2. A PPPL User Account
   • Users submitting from "Trusted" Sites
     (Culham, GA, IPP, JET, MIT)
     1. A "TRANSP only" account
     
     
   • Users submitting from other Sites
     1. A PPPL user account with "Off-Site Access"
        (requires Cyber training)
     2. A PPPL "TRANSP" account
     
     
   • All Foreign Nationals will have to fill in a DOE Registration form.
     Once PPPL recieves the account registration, the user will automatically get a request to complete the electronic form.
     This form will be valid for 4 years or the date of expiration of the individual's passport (whichever comes first).
     
     
   • How to get a PPPL account
   
   
3. For Transp Support Personel

How to get a FusionGrid Certificate

TRANSP Compute Server access employs FusionGrid Certificates for authentication. To get a FusionGrid certificate, go to the
FusionGrid Credential Management Server and click on "Request new certificate".
The registration authority will be:
FusionGrid

The sponsor can be listed as:
Steve Jardin
phone 1.609.243.2635



To use this proxy, you will use the Globus "myproxy-get-delegation".

  myproxy-get-delegation -s cert.fusiongrid.org [ -l username ] [ -t hours ]

where username is the name entered as username on the Request New Certificate Form and hours is the desired lifetime of the proxy where default is twelve hours (a TRANSP run may take longer than that default.) The password entered is the one that you entered in the Form. For more information, run "man myproxy-get-delegation" on your Unix system.

Note: The FusionGrid login routine "fglogin.sh" from cert.fusiongrid.org can be used. This routine also has arguments '-l username' and '-t hours'.

To automatically renew your proxy at login see FusionGrid access scripts




Forgotten FusionGrid Certificate password

If you have forgotten your FusionGrid Certificate password, a new certificate, with a new password, may be requested using the Recover Certificate page.



How to get a PPPL account

• From inside PPPL
  Go to PPPL Computer Account Registration
  Please specify in the "Intended Use" field:
  • who your "Off-Site" Contact is
  • what project (tokamak) data will you be studying
  
  
• From Off Site
  • Send email to Transp Support, stating:
    • Your First & Last Name
    • Your Affiliation
    • Your Sponsor at Affiliation
    • Intended use of TRANSP
  • You will in return receive an email asking you to click on the embedded link to complete the online registration. This link will be available for 3 days.
    Note: you must fill in a PPPL contact.
  • A prior email to Transp Support by your affiliaton's contact, vouching for your need for the service, can speedup approval.
  
  
• Account Renewal
  All accounts must be renewed annually. Expired accounts will be deleted.




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Managment and Implemetation

• Fusion Collaboratory Transp Production at PPPL
• C-Mod's Implementation and general Guide.
• PPPL's Implementation on Unix.
• Ideas for Code Run Management.
  
  
• NTCC modules to start/access TRANSP Runs
  • TR_Client -- scripts and programs to prepare, start, monitor and retrieve a run.

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