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- If you have not already, please go and visit Gabrielle Allen (Rm 40344016) and/or Amanda Lombardo (Rm 4029) on the fourth floor of NCSA so that we can discuss how to get started at NCSA in person, and in particular discuss any space needs or items not described below. We will happily tell you people that you might want to get to know in the building, or give you a tour.
- Obtain your NCSA Kerberos username and password from Research Coordinator (Amanda Lombardo, alombar@illinois.edu.).
- Unless otherwise discussed, faculty affiliates will by default be assigned shared cubicle space on the fourth floor of NCSA in office 4103. This large office is currently shared with staff from the NCSA business office. We will assign a number of faculty to each desk so that you have somewhere to work and leave items at NCSA in the shelf-space above each desk.
- If you have funds at NCSA (e.g. through the Faculty Fellows program or start up funds) you will be sent a budget code and you will be given a login on the BA3 accounting system (ba.eng.illinois.edu) through which you can check balances and receive monthly statements. If you need to spend against these funds before you receive the code contact Amanda Lombardo.
- Currently you will be given an NCSA email address (almost certainly with the same username as your illinois address) e.g. <username>@ncsa.illinois.edu — email to this address which includes some important mail lists used by NCSA, will all be forwarded typically to your regular Illinois address. Without trying to rationalize why this is done, you should be aware that we've found some problems with either the forwarding not being set up, or if people already had accounts from way-back (e.g. as a TeraGrid user when at a different place) the wrong address is being used. We hope to fix this very soon, but for now, please send a mail to yourself at your NCSA address, and check that you receive it. If you do not, please tell Amanda Lombardo <alombar@illinois.edu>.
- Review and sign-off on the NCSA Security Document using your login and Kerberos password. This document will be sent to you via email after your start date (see “NCSA Security Strategy” below.)
- If you would like to have your students or postdocs working in the building as part of your NCSA-related work, please start by contacting Amanda Lombardo.
- Add a photo and personalize information on your NCSA electronic directory profile at https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/directory/. Go to “My Profile” on the left menu and be sure to fill in information on both the “Staff Directory Listing” and “Additional Information” tabs located at the top. To save changes, click “Publish” at bottom of the page. If you don't have a good photo, go and see Steve Duensing in Rm 3022 and he will take one for you.
- Report anticipated office hours to Theme Lead and Research Coordinator.
- Make friends with the front line IT support, Alex Farthing and Brandon Carswell in Rm 4042, ask them to set up your laptop so you can print at NCSA.
- Check that your ID swipe card works by running it through the reader at the NCSA front door and seeing that the led turns green (recommend that you try this during work hours before an urgent trip to NCSA out of hours).
- Note that each floor of NCSA has a kitchen with a shared fridge/freezer and microwave. The ground floor has some vending machines by the class rooms.
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