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
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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
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Once the Onboarding is done, the next step is to complete the Account Request Form.
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In the form’s first page, select the appropriate Type of User Onboarding option which is completed in Step 1 and then proceed to the next page.
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In the second page, fill your information and you need to select Affiliate(Non-NMSU User) for the Affiliation with NMSU. You are required to complete the HPC Affiliate Authorization Form.
HPC Affiliate Authorization Form
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If you are an EPSCoR user, complete section 1 of the form. After you have completed section 1, and signed, please email the form to Selena Connealy connealy@epscor.unm.edu, at the EPSCoR office, to verify your inclusion in EPSCoR. You can reference this page EPSCoR for more information.
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Your submitted account request won’t be processed until the HPC team have received the signed form from the EPSCoR office
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If you are a Non-NMSU User and you don’t belong to the EPSCoR research group, complete the HPC Affiliate Authorization Form(Section 1 and Section 2), have it signed, and then upload the form.
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Once the account request form is submitted, HPC team will review the request and then contact you within 1–7 business days. Feel free to contact at hpc-team@nmsu.edu if you have any concerns/doubts.
Step 3 - Complete First-Time Login
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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.
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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
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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
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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