Marvin Registration Form

Please fill out this form to get Marvin access, or prolong your existing access.

This form is for all employees and students of Uni Bonn, including research group leaders.

If you are not with Uni Bonn, please fill out the form for external users here.

Please provide your Uni-ID, as issued by the University of Bonn, here. Uni-IDs typically have up to 8 characters and often look something like tmuster for employees or s99tmust for students, but may vary from that.

The Uni-ID is NOT your Matrikelnr.!

For security reasons, all e-mail communication from us will be addressed to your primary e-mail address, which is always [Uni-ID]@uni-bonn.de (e.g. tmuster@uni-bonn.de). Please ensure e-mails sent to this address can always reach you.

Note that sometimes users may have more than one Uni-ID. Only your primary Uni-ID (the one you were assigned when you started as a student/employee) will work.

More information on Uni-ID Identity Management here at the HRZ website.

Uniklinikum Bonn (UKB) IDs do not automatically work. UKB users must obtain an Uni-ID, or register as external users. We do not have full insight into how UKB employees can get Uni-IDs, you will have to consult the UKB IT department.

Note: this is necessary for export control purposes.

Which Uni Bonn faculty are you with?

Faculty overview here.

Please indicate your main reason for registering.

If you are registering as a group leader, please select the "Group Leadership" option. You will still be able to run computations like any normal user if you register as a group leader.

Note on student assistants and terminology:

  • An SHK is a student assistant who has not obtained any degree.
  • A WHF or WHB is a student assistant who has obtained a Bachelor's degree and is immatriculated.
  • A WHK is counted as staff here, because they are distinct from student assistant contracts and formally require a Master's (or equivalent) degree. For more information, consult Uni Bonn Circular 58/2022, see this Confluence page accessible from within the university network.

How familiar are you with HPC-related topics like Linux, SLURM job scripts, parallel programming etc.?

Note: this is mostly for statistical purposes and does not have to be 100% exact.

Please describe your research area as exactly as possible according to the DFG classification system (PDF). See also here for more information on the DFG classification system.

Estimate how many resources you need.

This is mostly for statistical purposes and does not have to be 100% exact.

We realize this is hard to estimate ahead of time.

  • Small Examples: Training course participation. Only one GPU, little to no parallel programming, under 100 GB of data, under 100000 individual files, off-the-shelf software frameworks
  • Medium Examples: A compute campaign requiring multiple runs, use of MPI or other parallelization, custom software
  • Large Examples: Extensive multi-node and/or multi-GPU computations, massive and/or highly customized parallelization, months-long compute campaigns, multiple TB of data, millions of individual files

Please give a brief description of what you are planning to do. Also include rough estimates of how many resources you are expecting to need.

Please indicate what open-source or proprietary software you expect to use.

This is to facilitate support and you will not be restricted depending on what you write here.

We will not install software just because you specify it here. See our wiki on how to use pre-installed software and how to install your own.

If you already have a license for some paid commercial software package, please note:

  • Extensive additional setup, both on your and our side, might be necessary.
  • Software might not run on Marvin, or on Linux, for multiple technical reasons.
  • We decide on a case-by-case basis which software we install and make no guarantees about availability or function.
  • License terms of your software might explicitly forbid cluster use, or require different licenses. It is your responsibility to comply with your software's license terms.

For questions about software, see our wiki, or e-mail one of our contact addresses with more in-depth questions.

Your research group name usually starts with ag_, e.g. ag_iam_muster.

If you do not know the name, or your group has never used Marvin, please fill in "Unknown", we will try to associate or create a group name from your other inputs.

Your research group leader (Professor, project PI, etc.) must be registered for Marvin access as well. This is because compute time on Marvin is allocated by research group.

Your research group leader (Professor, project PI, etc.) must be registered for Marvin access as well. This is because compute time on Marvin is allocated by research group.

If your group leader has already registered for Marvin access, please provide their name (or Uni-ID) here. Your group leader will be notified that you want to join.

If your group leader has not yet registered, please tell them that they must register using this same form, entering themselves as group leader. More information on the group leader's role here.

You will not be able to run compute jobs before your group leader has added you to their group.

If you know who is responsible for HPC or IT matters in your group/institute, please indicate their name, otherwise fill in Unknown.

Note: this is only to facilitate support if we have questions, and whoever you put here does not have to take on any duties.

Please fill out this field using the example format provided in the placeholder.
The phone number will be handled in accordance with GDPR.