Welcome to Discovery

This page provides useful links and documentation support for Affiliates help them kick-start with the Discovery.

To get access to Discovery, you are required to complete the steps one by one:

Step 1 - Complete the Onboarding Course

  • The first step is to complete the Onboarding course. The Onboarding session is one of the prerequisites to get the discovery access. Users can either complete a Self-Paced Onboarding course or 1-on-1 meeting with a HPC team member. For more details about the Onboarding, refer to Onboarding Section which has detailed instructions.

Step 2 - Account Request Form

  • Once the Onboarding is done, the next step is to complete the Account Request Form.

  • Be sure to select Affiliate (Non-NMSU User) for the Affiliation with NMSU.

  • If this is a renewal for an existing account be sure to change "Account Renewal" from "No" to "Yes."

HPC Affiliate Authorization Form

When the HPC Admin team processes the account request they will reach out the specified NMSU Sponsor and have them fill out and sign the HPC Affiliate Authorization Form / VPN Form. A signature from both the Affiliate and sponsor is required, but the signed PDF must be returned by the sponsor.

Step 3 - Complete First-Time Login

  • The first step after getting the Discovery access is to complete the first-time login process in Open OnDemand Discovery Portal. Open OnDemand provides a web GUI to access all the Discovery’s HPC resources.

  • To complete the first-time login process, follow the instructions in this page → First-Time Login for Affiliates. After the first-time login process is completed, you can start using the Discovery resources.

SSH or SFTP Login

  • If you want to do SSH or SFTP login to Discovery, you have to connect to the NMSU VPN network first. To do that, refer to the instructions → NMSU VPN Access

  • Once connected to the NMSU VPN successfully, you can do SSH login by following the instructions in the page → OpenSSH

Questions/Comments

Questions/comments/issues, reach out to our HPC team by sending an e-mail to hpc-team@nmsu.edu