National Research Platform(NRP) – Getting Started

1. Open https://nrp.ai/

2. Click on the “Log In” situated on the top right corner of the screen.

3. You will be redirected to the CILogon page, where you have to Select an Identity Provider.

4. Select your institution (for example: University Name) from the menu and click the Log On button.

• If your institution is using CILogon as a federated certification authority, it will be on the menu. Select the name of your institution and use either a personal account or an institutional G-suite account. This is usually your institutional account name (email) and a password associated with it.
• If your institution is not in the list, you may be able to use the Microsoft entry. If your university uses Microsoft’s Active Directory for user management (common if your campus uses Office 365 or related products), then you can login with your institutional credentials at the Microsoft login prompt.
• If your institution is not in the CILogon dropdown, and Microsoft also doesn’t work, you can select Google or Github.
• Note for ORCID users: We require email to be visible. If you are using ORCID as your institution, please change the email setting to make it visible to everyone.

5. After a successful authentication, you will log in to the portal and your account will be created if it was not created before.

6. If you are a student, please contact your research supervisor and ask them to add you to their namespace. Once you are added to a namespace, your status will change to a cluster user and you will get access to all namespace resources.

7. If you are a faculty member, researcher, or postdoc starting a new project and need your own namespace — either for yourself or your research group — you can request to be promoted to a namespace admin in Matrix. As an admin, you will have the ability to:

• Create multiple namespaces.
• Invite other users to your namespace(s).

8. As a namespace admin, you will be the one responsible for

• all activity happening in your namespaces.
• keeping the user list up-to-date.

9. To create Namespace, you need to login to the Element client.

1.  Navigate to web version of Element Client

2. Use “Host Account” matrix.nrp-nautilus.io

3. Create an account by entering a desired username, password and email.

4. After that you’ll get an account of the form @username:matrix.nrp-nautilus.io, which you can use to join rooms in any federated [matrix] resource, including the original https://matrix.org.

5. Click the explore rooms button. Check that you’re exploring the NRP server (matrix.nrp-nautilus.io). You’ll automatically join the Nautilus General channel and the News channel. For all other homeservers including Matrix.org, you can directly access and join the NRP Matrix Space (or join using the address #nrp:matrix.nrp-nautilus.io) for all channels.

6. Once you are logged in to Element, ask the support team to create the Namespace on the Nautilus Support channel.

1. Once you are logged in to the Element, you’ll automatically join the Nautilus General channel and News Channel. Currently, the general channel is named “Nautilus Support”.

2. On the general channel, send a message to create a namespace.

3. Let the support team know the desired namespace for your group (usually the department name). You can use lowercase letters, numbers, and dashes only. Choose clear, descriptive names (avoid generic ones like kubernetes-ai, testing-group, llm-access). To see the existing names for reference, please visit this visualization tree. For eg; To create namespace for MS-CC projects, it would be i2-mscc-projectname. i2(Internet2) is the Organization Name

4. Once your namespace has been created by the support team, you can now access your namespace.

1. If you have become a namespace admin, you can start creating your own namespaces at this time by going to the Namespaces manager section on the portal. You can add other users on the same page after they have logged in to the portal.

2. If you got added to a namespace as a user, you can verify it by going to the Namespaces manager tab after logging in to the portal. The namespaces you’re a member of will be marked in bold.

1. Make sure you read the cluster policies before starting to use it.

• Read the NRP Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
• Read the Cluster Policies

2. Make sure you’re on the Matrix. All Nautilus and NRP users are expected to join Matrix(web client Element) for user support and real-time updates.

• If you’re not on Matrix yet, please register right away following the instructions at this link.

1. Join NRP Slack Channel

2. NRP Office Hours time available in NRP Website