Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Group

As Hypatia's two HTCondor headnodes are public ones, you will need a personal Grid Certificate (often referred to as X.509 cert), and a gsi-enabled ssh client. Please see Grid Certificates and GSIssh for details. Also be aware that port 2222 must be used for gsissh access. (I know that recent macoses have issues with that, and I'm aware of the terrible state of gsi-openssh.)

• Apply for a certificate if you don't have one yet (or it expired).
  • A LIGO certificate will do but will stop working the day you leave LIGO.
  • If you are employed by the AEI but not working for LIGO (or do not want to use the LIGO certificate), you may submit your request here. Fill in / print the PDF from the start page, and come and see me (or one of the other RAs) afterwards, to present your ID card or passport.
• If you have your certificate ready, or are at the AEI (this includes VPN) you may apply for a user account.

• In the process of account creation, you will be added to the hypatia-users mailinglist - which will be used for any further discussion about Hypatia.

• Will you join AEI in the near future? (If so, when?) (The rationale behind this is that information will be copied from AEI's user database, to avoid UID clashes)
• Your preferred account name (if not defined by the above)
• Your full name (e.g. as shown in the LSC roster) contact details
• Your host (AEI staff member overseeing your activities) → Serguei, I presume
• Your email address (no googlemail please)
• LSC membership? (I can look this up in the roster, of course)
• If you got an AEI contract, I'll look up the expiration date, otherwise I'll make up one (extendable)
• Your X509 certificate subject (the one with “CN=Your Name”, can be the output of grid-cert-info -subject, or of grid-proxy-info -issuer if the output contains your name, please double-check)
• If you limit yourself to local (ssh) access (via default port 22), send your ssh public key as an attachment.

Once again: We're using gsissh to access the public port 2222 on the head nodes. ssh access is only open from within the AEI network.

Some primary information about Hypatia can be found at https://hypatia.aei.mpg.de

(last modified by Steffen Grunewald on 03 June 2020)