Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:49:13 +0000 (GMT)
Sender: notices@hpcx.ac.uk
To: early-users@hpcx.ac.uk
Subject: HPCx: Preparing for Full Service
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H   H  PPP    CCC                           UK  NATIONAL  HPC  SERVICE
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H   H  P      CCC   x  x                    CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory

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HPCx User Mailing 006                                  5 December 2002
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Greetings--

START OF FULL USER SERVICE

The full HPCx user service starts on Monday, 9 December.

In preparation for this, we will shortly be starting registrations
through the website for the projects which have been authorised for
access.

Of course, some of these projects are already using the early-use
service, but the new full-service projects will be distinct from the
existing early-use ones.  Your early-use accounts, however, will
continue for a short while, so that you can transfer files etc to your
new accounts.

At present, an account on the HPCx system can only be a mmember of one
project (this restriction will be removed later).  This means that to
use the full service, you will need a new account with a new username.

However, we understand that most users would prefer to keep the
usernames which they are using for the early-use service.  To get
round this, we are going to change all the usernames of people in
projects y001 to y007, according to the following rule:

  The username will be preceded by a 'x'.
  If the resulting username is nine characters long, it willl be
     truncated to eight characters.

Thus, 'fred' will become 'xfred', and 'jennifer' will become
'xjennife'.  In all other respects, including the password, the
accounts will be unchanged.  You will then be able to register for the
full service using your favourite username.

Projects z001, z002 and z003 are not affected.

We will start to make these changes at 10:00 tomorrow morning, 6
December.  They will take a few minutes to complete.

I shall mail again tomorrow with more details about the start of the
full service.


Regards

--John

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Earlier mailings: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/notices/index.html

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John Fisher                               j.fisher@epcc.ed.ac.uk
HPCx User Administration and Helpdesk
HPCx:  http://www.hpcx.ac.uk              Helpdesk: support@hpcx.ac.uk
Phone: +44 131 650 5029                   Fax: +44 131 650 6555