Create Your Research Computing Systems (RCS) Account¶
Creating an RCS account is an automated, self-service process for UAB-affiliated researchers. External collaborators will need to follow a different process.
What Do I Need Before Starting?¶
Before starting, you'll need to meet one of the following prerequisites.
- Have one of the following affiliations to UAB Campus: faculty, staff, student;
- or be employed by UAB Medicine;
- or have a XIAS account with a UAB-affiliated Sponsor.
Additionally, you must meet the following prerequisite.
- Your work on RCS must be research or in direct support of research.
Security
Direct patient care operations are not permitted on RCS. Please reach out to IT or IS contacts within your department for advice on how to proceed.
How Do I Create an RCS Account?¶
To create your account, use your browser to navigate to our web interface at https://rc.uab.edu.
You will be asked to login using Single Sign-on (SSO). Please select the tab that best describes your affiliation to UAB to see login instructions.
Please login with your BlazerID credentials.
Important
UAB Medicine employees must authenticate with their BlazerID credentials. These are different from your UAB Medicine credentials.
Security
If this is your first time logging in, you will first need to setup Two-Factor Authentication.
Please login with your XIAS account credentials. In the "BlazerID" box, put the email you used to register for your XIAS account. In the "Password" box, enter the password you configured when creating your XIAS account.
BlazerID:
name@domain.tldPassword:
********
Not affiliated with UAB? To access RCS, you must first Create an External Collaborator (XIAS) Account.
Important
All researchers creating and using XIAS accounts must have a UAB employed sponsor.
When you have authenticated you will be automatically taken to a form to create your account. Please select the tab that best describes your affiliation to UAB to see form instructions. If you wish to stop, click the "Cancel" button at the bottom of the form, or close your browser.
The form should be prefilled with your BlazerID, Full Name, and UAB Campus email address. Please verify the details are correct.
See incorrect or missing information? Please Contact Support.
The form should be prefilled as shown below. Only use the name portion of your XIAS email address name@domain.tld in the BlazerID field. Use your full XIAS email address in the Email field.
BlazerID:
nameFull Name: firstname lastname
Email:
name@domain.tld
Not affiliated with UAB? To access RCS, you must first Create an External Collaborator (XIAS) Account.
Important
All researchers creating and using XIAS accounts must have a UAB employed sponsor.
Please fill out the reason you wish to create an account in the form. It would be helpful to include information about your research use cases, needs, and how you believe RCS will help you.
You must read and agree to all relevant UAB IT policies. If you agree, please check the checkboxes.
When the form is completed, the "Create Account" button will become active. When you are ready, click the "Create Account" button to create your account. When you click this button, it will not be possible to stop the account creation process using the "Cancel" button.
After clicking the "Create Account" button, you should see a popup notification indicating that your account is being created. The process should take no longer than five minutes.
When the process is complete, you will be redirected to our Open OnDemand web interface.
Welcome to Cheaha and to Research Computing!
Next Steps¶
Please take some time to familiarize yourself with responsibilities, expectations, and policies around use of RCS.
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Responsibilities and Policies
Want to learn who is responsible for what, and what to expect on our systems? Become familiar with RCS responsibilities, expectations, and policies.
Research Computing has many services available to RCS account holders. To learn more about services that may interest you, please select the role that most closely matches yours.
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Open OnDemand Web Interface
Check out our interactive science apps, right in your browser! Jupyter, RStudio, MATLAB, a virtual desktop, and more!
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Slurm Batch Job Scheduler
Scale up your work! Learn how to schedule batch jobs with Slurm.
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Individual Storage Allocations
Did you know researchers can get no-cost individual storage on RCS?
- 5 TB on Cheaha (GPFS)
- 5 TB on Long-Term Storage (LTS)
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Data Transfer Options
RCS has multiple options for data transfers, within UAB and with other institutions. Globus, rclone, and more!
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Training Resources
See our collection of internet training resources!
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Data Science Journal Club Course
We offer a 1 credit hour course: Data Science Journal Club.
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Need a place to securely store code? Store git repositories in our on-premises GitLab server. Create a Code.rc account today!
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Open OnDemand Web Interface
Check out our interactive science apps, right in your browser! Jupyter, RStudio, MATLAB, a virtual desktop, and more!
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Slurm Batch Job Scheduler
Scale up your work! Learn how to schedule batch jobs with Slurm.
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Shared Storage Allocations
Did you know research labs and Cores can get no-cost shared storage on RCS?
- 25 TB on Cheaha (GPFS)
- 75 TB on Long-Term Storage (LTS)
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Data Transfer Options
RCS has multiple options for data transfers, within UAB and with other institutions. Globus, rclone, and more!
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