Overview

Process

This service is designed for faculty members teaching academic courses and in need of creating accounts for their classes at the beginning of each semester. Faculty interested in requesting support for their academic course on Research Computing’s systems are encouraged to fill out the account request form.

To complete the request, please provide basic information about your academic course and a class roster in either .csv, Excel, or text file format, including the first and last names of your students, as well as their ASURITE IDs. Once submitted, a member of our team will reach out to assist with your request.

Please be aware that the class account created is temporary and will only be active for the duration of your course. After your course concludes, the class account will be archived, and your students will have limited access to Research Computing’s systems. This archival process will not affect students who already have an account with Research Computing. If there are specific students you wish to sponsor for continued access to these systems, we are more than happy to work with you.

The purpose of archiving these accounts is to ensure continuous sponsorship of students on our systems, with utilization solely for sponsored academic and research activities.

Shared Data

A 100 GiB shared data storage directory will be made available to each class. This directory will be accessible to both the instructor and the students associated with the class accounts.

The location of the directory will be: '/data/courses/<year>/<class>'

Job Resource Limits

• Maximum of 32 CPU cores, 320 GB memory, and 4 GPUs per job

• Maximum wall time of 24 hours per job

User-Level Limits:

• Maximum of 2 jobs running concurrently per user

• Maximum of 10 jobs in the queue per user

• Maximum of 960 GPU running minutes per user, which is equivalent to:

  • 1 GPU for 16 hours

  • 2 GPUs for 12 hours

  • 3 GPUs for 16 hours

  • 4 GPUs for 4 hours

How to Submit Jobs with the Class QoS

When submitting jobs, you will need to specify the class QoS:

   interactive -q class

For batch scripts, include the following line:

    #SBATCH -q class

Users with Both Academic Course and Research Accounts

If students have access to Sol under both an academic course and a research account, they will need to specify which account to submit your job to using the -A flag.

For example:

    interactive -q class -A class_asu101spring2025

    interactive -q public -A grp_mylab

For batch scripts:

    #SBATCH -q class

    #SBATCH -A class_asu101spring2025

or

    #SBATCH -q public

    #SBATCH -A grp_mylab

To see which accounts you have on Sol, use the command: myfairshare

Additional Help