How to apply for a TSUBAME account

Your applicable account type depends on your affiliation and programs you use.

1. Internal Users / Eligible for Preferencial Fee

A holder of a student ID card or a staff ID card

To use TSUBAME as an on-campus user, you must have one of the Science Tokyo ID cards: Student ID Card or Staff ID Card.
This is the only account that allows you to use commercial software that is only available to students, faculty and staff of Science Tokyo due to its license.

Science and Engineering Field

1. Log in to the Portal for Science and Engineering Field
2. (If you have not done it yet) Perform “Register Last Name Reading” on the Resource menu.
3. Go to TSUBAME4 Portal from “TSUBAME4 Portal” link in the Resource menu and submit your application.

The expiration date of your account will be the expiration date of your student/staff ID. (You need to finish step 3. above every fiscal year)

For credited students and special auditing students who have a “student ID card”, an application for lecture use of TSUBAME must be submitted by the instructor in charge of the class. Please check the separate page for details.

Medical and Dental Sciences Field

As applicants in Medical and Dental Sciences field cannot use Portal for Science and Engineering Field, individual application via form is required. Please check the separate page for details.

A holder of an access card for the Science and Engineering Field

In addition, researchers who have an “Access Card for the Science and Engineering Field” with certain statuses are entitled to the same billing privileges as Science Tokyo faculty, staff, and students.
Please note that most commercial applications are not available due to licensing restrictions, although you will receive the same preferential billing treatment as on-campus users.

If you do not have a status eligible for preferential billing, an account based on the Science Tokyo ID card will not be issued, so please consider using the general use system from 2. onward.

1. Chefk if you have a specific position of preiferential fee (= available)
2. Obtain an access card if you have not already done.
3.  Login to Portal for Science and Engineering Field
4. (If not already done) Perform “Register Last Name Reading” in the Resource menu.
5. Go to the TSUBAME4 Portal from the “TSUBAME4 Portal” link in the Resource menu to apply.
6. Submit copy of documents (Note that your account will not be activated until you send in the required documents if the TSUBAME4 portal asks you to send in your documents)

The expiration date of your TSUBAME account will be the same as the expiration date of your access card.

2. Subsidized Usage Programs

TSUBAME offers a variety of fee subsidies, allowing users to use TSUBAME without having to directly pay for the use of TSUBAME.

• JHPCN, Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructures
  It is a joint use/joint research center by eight universities including Science Tokyo. Applications for the following year are accepted from November to January every year.
• The innovative High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI)
  HPCI is a shared computing environment infrastructure that connects the computer systems and storage of universities and research institutes in Japan including Fugaku. Every year in October, there is an open call for the following fiscal year.
• TSUBAME Grand Challenge Large Scale Computing System 
  We provide an all-node occupancy usage of the TSUBAME 4.0 supercomputer, with the objective of remarkable results that can only be achieved with the world's top-class supercomputers.There is an open call for applications every year in January-February.
• TSUBAME Encouragement Program for Young/Female/Younger Users
  • Young/Female: "Young user" (incl. graduate student) who is less than 40 years old, "Female user" at any age.There are two open calls for applications per year, one in January-February and the other in May.
  • "Younger user" includes undergraduate students, higher-professional-school students, and high-school students. Applications are accepted anytime from April-December.

The following fee reduction/exemption systems are available for internal users: Please obtain an account as Science Tokyo internal users described in 1. and apply for it using the method described in the respective pages.

• Application for free TSUBAME point grant system for lectures
  If you give a lecture using TSUBAME computing nodes, the required points will be granted free of charge. (Up to 50 units, worth 50,000 yen)
• Discount based on JST FOREST (Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology) program
  Discounts are available for JST FOREST program adopters. (Up to 1,000 units at half price)

3. Reserach Collabolation based on Research Fund or Industrial Contract

Researchers (including companies) and members of their laboratories who have official collaborative research relationships with Tokyo Tech faculty and staff through scientific research grants and other means are eligible to use TSUBAME.

In the case of using TSUBAME in this way, the TSUBAME usage fee will be paid from the budget of the Science Tokyo faculty member who accepts the program.
If the cost is paid by outside the university, please use the TSUBAME Partnership Resorce Allocations in section 4.

For more details of account application, please refer here.

TSUBAME can also be used to conduct International Research Collaboration based on an international exchange agreement with Science Tokyo.
For more details, please refer here.

4. TSUBAME Partnership Resource Allocations

Based on the TSUBAME Partnership Resource Allocations, this service is available to all universities, research periods, and companies other than Tokyo Tech.
For more details, please refer here.

(For reference) User and Group categories in TSUBAME

• On-campus user accounts and TSUBAME groups using an on-campus budget can be created and managed by users themselves via the TSUBAME portal.
• External user accounts and TSUBAME groups that do not use users' on-campus budgets are managed by GSIC.
• One account (user) may belong to multiple user categories with corresponding applications. (e.g. On-campus + HPCI)