What computing accounts are available at IU?

All students, faculty, and staff at Indiana University are eligible for UITS computing accounts; under certain circumstances, guests and affiliates of IU are eligible as well. You can apply for most computing accounts through the Account Management Service (AMS). See:

• How do I get my first computing accounts at IU?
• At IU, if I already have some computing accounts, how do I get others?
• At IU, how can my group or department request a computing account?
• About sponsored computing accounts for IU affiliates

On this page:

• Basic accounts
• Additional accounts
• Specialized system accounts

Basic accounts

Students, faculty, and staff at IU initially receive the following accounts:

• Network ID account: Your Network ID account allows you to create and maintain computing accounts at IU, as well as to authenticate to many university resources. For more, see What is an IU Network ID?
  
  
• ADS domain account: Your ADS account allows authentication to other university resources. See At IU, what is my Active Directory Services (ADS) domain account?
  
  
• Email account: Students create accounts on either Imail (powered by Microsoft) or Umail (powered by Google). Faculty and staff generally have accounts on the Exchange servers, but some have accounts on Cyrus, as well or instead. See Email at each IU campus.
  
  
• UITS printer account for students and faculty (IUB only): Students and faculty at IU Bloomington also automatically receive a UITS printer account, which is necessary to use most printing facilities on the IUB campus. For more, see Information about the UITS printing account at IUB.

  Staff do not receive a printer account with their initial UITS accounts. Staff members who want to use printing facilities at IUB will have to create a printer account as detailed below.

Note: For more on account lifecycles, see At IU, when do students get their computing accounts, and how long do they have them?

Additional accounts

Along with the basic accounts that are automatically created, you may be eligible for other UITS computing accounts, based on your campus and your status within the university. You can request most of these accounts through the AMS.

• UITS printer account for staff (IUB only)

  IUB staff members do not have printer accounts created with their initial accounts, and instead will have to create a UITS printer account in order to print on campus using UITS-managed printing services. See Information about the UITS printing account at IUB.

  IUB staff should be able to create a printer account through the AMS. If the option to create a printer account does not appear in the AMS, and you still cannot print in the STCs or RTCs, send an email message requesting an account to  stcprint@indiana.edu .

  Associated with this account is a per-semester printing allotment; see About STC printing allotments at IUB.

• Personal home page account (all campuses)

  If you'd like to publish a personal home page at IU, you can request an account on Mercury, which serves pages at mypage.iu.edu. For more, see At IU, what is Mercury? and At IU, what is Mypage, and how can I publish a web page there?

• Research systems accounts (all campuses)

  IU's research systems are configured to support only research computing. They do not accept inbound mail from the network. Furthermore, newsreaders, information clients (Lynx), and IRC clients are not supported on these systems.

  Quarry serves multiple communities as a research cluster and as a general purpose Linux environment. Accounts are open to all IU students, faculty, and staff, as well as affiliated researchers.

  Accounts on Big Red and the Research Database Complex (RDC) are available to IU graduate students, faculty, and staff. Undergraduate students must have a faculty sponsor.

  You can apply for an account on Big Red, Quarry, the RDC, or the Research File System (RFS) at:

  https://itaccounts.iu.edu/

  For more, see:

  • At IU, what is Quarry?
  • At IU, what is Big Red?
  • At IU, what is the Research Database Complex?
  • At IU, what is the Research File System (RFS)?

  Also see the High Performance Systems page.

  In addition, the Massive Data Storage Service (MDSS) is available to researchers. The MDSS provides extensive capacity (over 250 terabytes) for IU researchers who need to store and access huge amounts of data. It uses the High Performance Storage System (HPSS), a hierarchical storage management software package. The system is located on both the IUB and IUPUI campuses, providing automatic off-site copies of data for disaster recovery. See At IU, what is the Massive Data Storage Service (MDSS)?

• Workstation accounts (IUB only)

  The Burrow, a cluster of Linux workstations in Lindley Hall (LH 004 and 035), is reserved for students in the Computer Science department. Accounts are created automatically for students enrolled in computer science classes that use it.

Specialized system accounts

• Departmental LAN accounts

  To request an account on a departmental LAN, contact the department's network administrator.

• University web server (Webserve) accounts

  Webserve provides web space for online publication by IU departments and officially recognized organizations, including officially recognized student groups. See At IU, who can have an account on Webserve, and how do I get one?

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