ARCC Administrative and Operational Policies

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.

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Policy Index

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1. General Policies

A. Terms of Use

B. User Responsibilities

C. Appropriate Use

D. Software, Data Security, & Access Control

E. Policy Violations

F. Disclaimers

2. ARCC HPC POLICIES

HPC Policy Intention

ARCC's SLURM HPC Scheduling Policy is subject to adjustments. These proposed changes are intended to improve and incentivize the following:

1. 1. 1. 1. Encourage fair-share access to ARCC resources and limit disproportionally dominant HPC resource utilization by any individual or a single research group.
        
        Prioritize Access for Funded Research.
        
        Incentivize HPC Investment for Priority Access.
        
        Spur innovation by maintaining a level of free services available to the overall University of Wyoming research community.

A. HPC Login Node Use

B. HPC/HPS Accounts

C. Job Scheduling Policy (Revised)

D. Default HPC Compute Service Quota (For UW Internal Users)

3. Software Policies

A. General Software Policy

B. Software Requests

C. Software Aquisition

D. Software Installations

E. Software Support

4. Storage Policies

A. Research Data Storage Overview

B. Data on HPC Resources

C. Default Storage Quotas

D. Directory Descriptions

E. Capacity Increase Options

F. File Deletion & Purge Policy

G. Costs Associated with Project Storage

5. Costs & Charges

A. Investments

B. General (Non-Investment) Cluster Usage

C. ARCC UW Internal Price Sheet (**Under development, subject to review & only available to UW Internal Users)