Students
CCR is committed to providing opportunities for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level to get hands-on experience in high performance computing. We also offer many annual activities for middle and high school-aged students.
How we support students of all levels:
We do not accept request for accounts from students. In order to get access to CCR resources, you must either be working for a UB faculty member or taking a class that requires access. If you meet one of these requirements, please create yourself an account using our self-service portal (https://idm.ccr.buffalo.edu). Step-by-step instructions for the account creation process can be found in our documentation.
Once your CCR account has been created, please let your faculty sponsor or professor know. They must then add you to their project in our allocation management portal, Coldfront. Instructions for how to do this can be found in our documentation. Although we now offer users the ability to create a CCR account for themselves, we must verify a new user's status before allowing them access to CCR resources. This is done when a faculty member adds the user to a project and gives them access to a resource allocation. Faculty can do this 24 hours a day; however, it is your responsibility to contact your sponsor and request that he/she adds you to their project.
Once you've been added to their project and at least one allocation to a resource (server, cluster, cloud, etc), you will be able to login to that resource. You can login to Coldfront to see what you have access to. NOTE: Our systems sync with ColdFront once daily at 5pm, after which your account will be updated and you'll be able to access the resource.
Documentation for how to use our systems can be found in our here. We highly recommend our Getting Started guide and our recorded videos on YouTube. The self-paced Intro to CCR course available in UB Learns is free and open to all faculty, staff, and students. We highly recommend taking this course to ensure your successful use of CCR's high performance computing systems.
All users must comply with the UB Computing Usage Policy.
CCR offers several opportunities for motivated high school students. Every summer CCR offers a two week workshop in computational science to students who have completed their first year of high school. Topics in the past have included computational chemistry, scientific visualization, and bioinformatics. CCR staff work with faculty and staff from various departments at UB, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute to provide an array of activities, tours, and presentations to engage and excite students. Often, students who have completed the workshop come back to work summers at CCR for the duration of high school and sometime through their college years!
As ambassadors for high performance computing technology and computational science, CCR routinely provides tours for middle and high school classes and technology clubs. In addition, K-12 teachers, scouts, and a wide variety of citizen groups have visited our facility. CCR staff are always happy to describe the role CCR plays in research, scholarship, and industrial technology to interested groups. For more information on this, please have your adult teacher or leader contact us.