Account Administration

Management Tools

ACCESS projects use the ACCESS user portal for project and account management.

Non-ACCESS project and account management, such as adding someone to a project, is handled by NCSA group management tools. For more information, go to Group/Project Member Management.

Configuring Your Account

Bash is the default shell. To change the default shell, submit a support request.

Allocations

The majority of Delta is allocated through ACCESS and is the preferred path to getting compute time on Delta. A portion of the Delta system is also available to Illinois researchers, primarily to fill needs not met by the ACCESS program. See the Delta Allocations page to learn more, including how to submit allocation requests.

Allocation Policies

ACCESS awarded projects and allocations should receive periodic messages regarding approaching project expiration.

An ACCESS project is marked for inactivation once it has no valid resource allocation on the system.
Current ACCESS policy is for user access to be removed if a user is not a member of any active project on Delta.
Delta does NOT allow storage only allocations, all user accounts must be on an active compute resource allocation. All Delta storage resources are intended for data in active use. Delta does not provide storage resources for archiving data or other long-term storage.

Illinois awarded projects and allocations currently do not receive periodic messages regarding approaching project expiration.

Manual notifications are being provided, as needed.
The Delta Project office is working on a process for notifications, and project and account inactivation based on expiration dates.

There is a 30-day grace period for expired Delta projects to allow for data management access only.

Allocation Supplements and Extensions

Request resource allocation supplements (CPU or GPU compute) and date extensions via the appropriate XRAS website:

ACCESS allocation PIs can find instructions on the ACCESS Allocations: How To page.
NCSA allocation PIs can find instructions on the Delta Allocations page.

To request a storage quota increase, submit a support request. In the request include:

A detailed justification for the size of the increase.
How long you need the increase.

Keep in mind that Delta is storage constrained and can only provide storage for data in active use by computations on the system.