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(Created page with "== Math Account == In the old days, academic departments had their own computer systems with their own separate user accounts. Math was no exception. Most things are now cent...") |
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There's an F.A.Q. below, but we'll answer this one up front. The old system existed long before netids, and there are many people who are still using their pre-netid accounts for regular work. Also, there are many rules and contraints to connecting math department machines to the central Cornell system. The biggest one is performance. Some parts of the system need to make many calls across the network for some operations, and it would be much slower. Also, the central system can be changed without notice, or may go down for maintenance. So we've had better speed and reliability with our separate system.
The next reason is security. The Math account is controlled by the netid, such as for password reset, but there is nothing in a person's netid account that is accessible from their Math account. So, math researchers can do what they want, and this separation keeps the Cornell system safe.
In the future, it may be desirable to set up access to the system that uses NetIDs as the primary username. This is possible if it's found to be necessary.
==== Math Account Resources ====
* A consistent desktop environment across all systems, from desktop workstations, to large number crunchers, to pay-as-you-go systems at the Center for Advanced Computing, or Amazon AWS.
* A personal file storage area that is backed up regularly, in your home directory.
* Access to a very large, fast volume for larger datasets, in the /space volume.
* Access to very fast local storage on all of the machines, in /local
* In-browser file transfer in and out of the system, using JupyterHub or Webdisk.
* In-browser access to the Linux desktop environment where all of these tools are available.
==== Getting a Math Account ====
Anyone at Math who is a member of the math.instructors group may send an invite to a NetID to set up a Math account, by going to https://accounts.math.cornell.edu/ and clicking the 'invite user' link.
If you don't have a math account and you would like one, ask a math instructor, or email mathsystems@cornell.edu to request one.
Anyone with a NetID may have a math account, all we ask is that they're respectful of system resources (details below).
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