Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Group

Accounts for Minerva are maintained in a LDAP database, separate from other AEI facilities.

See the policy page.

Please send your account request

• by clicking here
• or mail to hpc-support@aei.mpg.de and CC steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de

The following information is required:

• full name and affiliation/location/phonenumber – (*1)
• username – your AEI account name (if applicable)
• UID – (*1)
• group membership(s) – e.g. acr, aei, lsc, guest
• e-mail address – @aei.mpg.de or @home_institution, no @googlemail.com
• name and e-mail address of host – non-AEI users only
• account expiration date – ISO style YYYY-MM-DD – non-AEI users only (*1)
• a valid SSH public key (RSA, ED25519, ECDSA) as e-mail attachment (to avoid line breaks and added characters)

(*1): AEI members will be looked up in IT's database

According to the Policy, a confirmation from the Director may be necessary (non-ACR only).

You will receive a confirmation (from the ticket system) when your account is being created, your e-mail address will be subscribed to the minerva-users@aei.mpg.de mailinglist.
When you have received the mailinglist notification you may start to use your account. Please report any irregularities!

Please proceed to the First Steps page.

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