ARCC Administrative and Operational Policies

Policy

Introduction

The UW Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) is the University of Wyoming's core computational facility under UW's Division of Research and Economic Development.  Our facility is tasked with supporting advanced computational needs of the UW research community.  We are staffed by a team of system administrators and research computing facilitators with expertise towards supporting high performance computing and computationally intensive disciplines.

ARCC enriches research at the University of Wyoming through the administration of cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure hosted on site at the UW Campus, by providing pragmatic research oriented services and resources, and by facilitating the application of advanced computing and technologies among those in our research community. 

This page serves as a landing point and index for ARCC policies applicable to all users accessing ARCC hosted resources.  All policies and procedures are intended to ensure that UW resources are used effectively and in support of UW's greater research and academic mission.

 

 

ARCC Policy Index

 

1. General Policies

A. Terms of use

    i.    UW Acceptable use Policy

    ii.   Arcc Specific Acceptable use Policy

B. User Responsibilities

    i.     Global User Prerequisites

    ii.    Global User Responsibilities

    iii.   PI Responsibilities

    Iv.   Research Use

    V.    User Data Requirements

    Vi.   ARCC REquest Compliance
    Vii.  Monitor e-mails

    Viii. Provide Notifications

    ix.   respond to arcc notifications

C. Appropriate Use

    i.     Unauthorized use

    ii.    Altering Authorized access

    iii.   Reconstruction of information or software

    iv.   Data modification or destruction

    v.    Malicious software

    vi.   Denial of service Actions

    vii.  explicit materials

    viii. harassment

D. Security & Access Control

    i.     arcc use by foreign nationals

    ii.    restricted data

    iii.   System security

    vi.   licensing and copyright compliance

    v.    data retention 

E. Policy Violations

    i.     repercussions

F. Disclaimers

 

2. ARCC HPC Policies

A. HPC Login node use

    i.     Login node provisioning

    ii.    unauthorized login node activities

    iii.   Violations & repercussions

B. HPC/HPS Accounts

    i.     Account as PI

a. Who qualifies as a PI
b. Graduate Students as Project PIs

    ii.    Account as member of HPC resource project

    iii.   Account general terms of use

    vi.   AcCount requests

    V.    Account Types

    vi.   Account Lifecycle

C. Job Scheduling Policy (revised) 

    i.     Job submissions

    ii.    reservations

    iii.   job limitations

    iv.   queue and quality of service tiers

v.   Walltime extensions

D. Default HPC Compute Service Quota chart 

3. Software Policies

       A.  Overview of Policy & Agreement

     i.    arcc software support agreement

     ii.   software policy review

B.  Software Requests

     i.    supported software

     ii.   Requests for support of depreciated applications

     iii.  consultation requests

C.  Software Aquisition

     i.    financial support

     ii.   Technical support

D.  Installations

 

4. Storage Policies

A.  Research Storage Overview

B.  Data Stored on Cluster Resources

     i.    intended use

     ii.   best practices

     iii.  backup policy

C.  Default Storage Quotas

i.  General Service Quota Table

ii. graduate project storage quotas

D.  Directory Descriptions

E.  Capacity Increase Options

F.  File Purge & Deletion Policy

G.  Project Storage Costs (see section 5: costs & charges)  

      i.   one-time increase request process & provisions

      ii.  costs associated with section 4d, capacity increase options

 

5. Costs and Charge PolicieS

        A.  Investments

    B.  General (Non-Investment) Cluster Usage

C.  ARCC Price Sheet for UW Users (**subject to review) 

D.  ARCC Price Sheet for Industry/External Users (**subject to review)