PRAGMA User Account Application



To apply for a user account in PRAGMA Grid, please email the following information and files to Cindy Zheng.
(If you do not have a user certificate, you can apply for PRAGMA experimental certificate. In that case, answer "need to apply for PRAGMA experimental certificate" for items 14-17. Cindy will let you know how to get the certificate.)
  1. Your full name
  2. Institution name
  3. Address of the institution
  4. Country of the institution
  5. Your phone number
  6. Your fax number
  7. Your email address
  8. The purpose of using PRAGMA grid
  9. Your/your institution's contribution to PRAGMA (can be work, resources)
  10. Prefered login names (1st, 2nd, 3rd, but may or may not be granted)
  11. Prefered UNIX shell (may or may not be granted)
  12. Hostname(s) and IP address(es) of the system(s) which you launch your applications
    (This is required for PRAGMA grid site systems to open their firewalls in order to allow you access.)
  13. Your ssh PUBLIC key (NEVER and NEVER give anyone your private key file!! Nor your ssh password!!)
    (Have not used ssh key before? See SSH tutorial, read the chapter "What is SSH?" and the chapter "Generating a key". We recommend rsa key for backward compatibility. Please choose a secure password to generate the ssh key. After the ssh key is generated, make sure that you make a backup copy of your ssh public key and private key files.)
  14. Your DN string
    (Distinguished Name is a string which usually reside in /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile file)
  15. Url or attach your site certificate file
    (It usually resides in /etc/grid-security/certificates directory on your UNIX system, with suffix .0)
  16. Url or attach your site certificate signing_policy file
    (It usually resides in the same directory as above, with suffix .signing_policy)
  17. Url or attach your site certificate revocation list (CRL) file, if exist
    (Some sites may not have such list. If your site has such list, the file usually resides in the same directory as site certificate file, with suffix .r0)

Here is an example:

  1. Your full name: Cindy Zheng
  2. Institution name: San Diego Supercomputer Center
  3. Address of the institution: 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
  4. Country of the institution: USA
  5. Your phone number: 858-534-5048
  6. Your fax number: 858-822-5407
  7. Your email address: zhengc at sdsc.edu
  8. The purpose of using PRAGMA grid: routine-basis experiment
  9. Your/your institution's contribution to PRAGMA: work
  10. Prefered login names: cindyz, cindyxz, NONE
  11. Prefered UNIX shell: bash
  12. Hostname(s) and IP address(es) of the system(s) which you launch your applications: rocks-52.sdsc.edu, 198.202.88.52.
  13. Your ssh public key: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEA0UZMhFsGGrjOC9ZsUrBaCrTuOo/rJb6McM8jL3FRUGTNJGFvI6iZ4nyD856XwzgH9QNg08vpmqzzl6H5uxdtmiuhbuAP2A7cTWv8orVzp+6tl8AFS3bMWkCZzdmc8LR0wSu03ulQFVrbY3RnLsYJwcunY4y2LNDnLrTMdbmCR3c= zhengc@rocks-52.sdsc.edu
  14. Your DN string: "/C=US/O=NPACI/OU=SDSC/CN=Cindy Zheng/USERID=zhengc"
  15. Url or attach your site certificate file: https://pragma-goc.rocksclusters.org/secure/certificates/b89793e4.0
  16. Url or attach your site certificate signing_policy file: https://pragma-goc.rocksclusters.org/secure/certificates/b89793e4.0signing_policy
  17. Url or attach your site certificate revocation list (CRL) file, if exist: NONE