Getting an Account

Research lab accounts are available to persons actively engaged in research in the CS Department. Students must be sponsored by a faculty member, who will be responsible to allocate any needed equipment and to oversee the student's use of lab resources.

1. First open your CS departmental account. This is done at the undergraduate lab at 730 Commonwealth Ave. Details are here.
2. Have the faculty member sponsoring you (usually your advisor) e-mail your full name and your username to the research lab manager, Paul Stauffer <rl-admins@cs.bu.edu>, requesting that an account be created for you.
3. If you require physical access to the research lab, have your sponsor also send e-mail to Jennifer Streubel <jenn4@bu.edu>, including your full name and your BUID#, requesting that you be given card access to the lab area.

Your account should be ready within 24 hours. It will have the same username as your departmental account, and will initially be set to have the same password. Additionally, if requested by your advisor, your BU ID card should give you access to the research lab on the second floor.

This account will give you access to the compute servers (elf, orc, and ontario), as well as the Linux workstations in the lab. Most Windows machines in the lab can be accessed via a CS-NT domain account. Be sure to check with your advisor to find out which machines he or she is authorizing you to use, as there are no public-use workstations in the research lab.