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You (the PI) and your sponsored users can begin to use the awarded resources at the beginning of the RAC year.  
You (the PI) and your sponsored users can begin to use the awarded resources at the beginning of the RAC year.  
= Projects and accounts =
Each RAC award has an associated Resource Allocation Project Identifier, or RAPI.  The RAPI typically takes the form "abc-123-ab".
The award (and the RAPI) also has an associated "Group Name", which typically takes the form "rrg-yourname-ab" or "rpp-yourname-ac".
You can find RAPIs and the corresponding Group Names by visiting the [https://ccdb.computecanada.ca/ Account Details] page of the CCDB site (shown below).
When submitting jobs using Slurm, you and your students and collaborators should use the Group Name as the value of the `--account` option so the resource usage will be attributed to your RAC award and not to your default RAPI.
For more on project names and job submission, see [[Running_jobs#Accounts_and_projects|Running jobs: Accounts and projects]].
[[File:Find-group-name-annotated.png|750px|frame|left| Finding the group name for a Resource Allocation Project (RAP)]]
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3) Add or remove project members by clicking the green checkmarks or the red x's. If you do not have permission to edit project members, you may have the wrong RAP selected. The sponsored users of any co-PIs will also be listed and their permissions can be edited. From this page you can add someone else from your group to be the manager, who upon being appointed, will have the permission to edit project members.
3) Add or remove project members by clicking the green checkmarks or the red x's. If you do not have permission to edit project members, you may have the wrong RAP selected. The sponsored users of any co-PIs will also be listed and their permissions can be edited. From this page you can add someone else from your group to be the manager, who upon being appointed, will have the permission to edit project members.
= Projects and accounts =
Every PI has a default Resource Allocation Project Identifier, or RAPI.  The RAPI typically takes the form "abc-123-aa".
Your default RAPI also has an associated '''group name''' which typically takes the form "def-yourname".
Each RAC award also has a RAPI, typically of the form "abc-123-ab" or "abc-123-ac", etc.,
and an associated group name, typically of the form "rrg-yourname-ab" or "rpp-yourname-ac".
You can find RAPIs and their corresponding group names by visiting the [https://ccdb.computecanada.ca/ Account Details] page of the CCDB site. 
See [[Running_jobs#Accounts_and_projects|Running jobs: Accounts and projects]] for an illustration.


=Using a compute allocation on a cluster=
=Using a compute allocation on a cluster=


When submitting a jobs to the scheduler on a cluster users will need to specify the account to be "billed" for this job, which is the means by which you and your collaborators can make use of any compute allocation you may have on a particular cluster. See [[Running_jobs#Accounts_and_projects | this page]] for more details.
When submitting a jobs to the scheduler on a cluster, users will need to specify a group name as the value of the <code>--account</code> option.  Jobs pertaining to the research described in the RAC application should be submitted with the group name corresponding to the RAC award.  Jobs pertaining to other research should be submitted with the default group name. See [[Running_jobs#Accounts_and_projects|Running jobs: Accounts and projects]] for more details.


=Using allocated <code>/project</code> storage=
=Using allocated <code>/project</code> storage=
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