Getting Started with VC3

Last revised: Tuesday, November 26, 2017

questions/comments: lincolnb@uchicago.edu

|Virtual Clusters for Community Computation|, or |VC3|, is a platform for connecting clusters, grids, and clouds. VC3 can run overlay systems for a variety of cluster frameworks to make disparate resources appear as a single “virtual” resource for collaborative science.

Note

This portion of |VC3|‘s documentation does not cover installation. See the Installation section for how to install |VC3|.

Prerequisites

In order to use VC3, you’ll need an allocation or account with with a supported target resource. These include, but are not limited to:

• University of Chicago - Research Computing Center
• University of Notre Dame - Center for Research Computing
• Brookhaven National Laboratory - Scientific Data & Computing Center
• Syracuse University - Research Computing
• Texas Advanced Computing Center
• NERSC
• Amazon Web Services
• Open Science Grid
• and more!

Institutions and resources are added frequently - be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and visit https://www.virtualclusters.org!

Building your first Virtual Cluster

• Login or Create Account
• 2. Sign in to Globus
• 3a. Login with your institutional ID
• 3a. Login with your Globus ID
• 4. Complete or update your VC3 profile
• 5. Connect an Allocation
• 6. Defining a Project
• 7. Creating a Cluster Template
• 8. Resources
• 8. Launching a Virtual Cluster