Here you can find useful information about CISER's services and Chemistry-specific how-to's. |
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CISER's service includes free-to-you access, from your own computer, to Mathmatica, Matlab, and many other software packages:
Run expensive software on CISER's high-end hardware from almost any computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux). All software licensing is pre-paid, and the installation and configuration is maintained by experts.
How to sign-up and connect
First-time user information and other connecting information:
Contact Chemistry IT
- If you are a Chemistry Department researcher you are welcome to contact ChemIT@cornell.edu to let us know that you have applied for an account.
- Please do let Chemistry IT know if you find this service helpful or if you discover something that gets in the way of it being a useful service.
Previous information, some now out-dated.
Changes to note as compared to the below write-up, as of August 2017:
- All of the references below to subscriptions are no longer valid.
- The entire “Usage data, from CISER” page isn’t exactly valid either. The current arrangement is that all member colleges pay a percentage of the “cost of running the service”.
To create an account
- Below is per CISER's email to ChemIT on 3/15/13. Hopefully of some help with onboarding, even as some particulars change (see note, just above)
Each user must fill out the application located on CISER's web site:
Option 1: Connecting With a Valid Cornell NetID
- Visit http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/computing/accts/RSCH_ReqForm.php
- Indicate that you have a valid Cornell NetID and click "Continue"
- Fill out the "Contact Info" and "Academic Info" appropriately and click "Continue"
- Select "For Research"
- For the "Affiliated Faculty" information, give your PI's name and Net ID (Cornell professor)
- In the "Comments" box on the bottom of the page, please write, "Add to Arts and Sciences' annual subscription" so that CISER will assign your account to a prepaid subscription through the College of Arts and Sciences
- Click "Continue" and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the account
Option 2: Connecting Without a Valid Cornell NetID
- Visit http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/computing/accts/RSCH_ReqForm.php
- Indicate that you do not have a valid Cornell NetID and click "Continue"
- In the case when a NetID is not available, CISER will generally use your last name for the account and limit the account activity for the time period you are visiting Cornell, but can extend by request if collaborating further (4/26/13, JanetH). Contact ChemIT if you have any questions or concerns if you fall in this category.
- Fill out the "Contact Info" appropriately
- Under "Cornell Affiliation Info" give the name, NetID, and college of your PI (Cornell Professor)
- In the "Comments" box, please write, "For Chemistry and Chemical Biology research. Add to Arts and Sciences' annual subscription" so that CISER will assign your account to a prepaid subscription through the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Click "Continue" and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the account