Acceptable Use Policy

General NU HPC terms and conditions

• Computing resources including but not limited to CPUs, GPUs, RAM, storage space, network bandwidth are to be used for research purposes only.
• User accounts may not be shared. No proxy work is allowed. An individual may not connect to HPC facilities or submit jobs on behalf of someone else.
• No commercial work is permitted unless authorized by NU administration and HPC Team.

Revocation of access

Any infringement of the above terms, or if the following abuse is noted, may result in your user account being suspended and/or disciplinary actions taken:

• Running jobs or any long process with high core, memory, or storage load on the login node.
• Fraudulent requests for HPC resources.
• Over-subscribing requested resources. Examples include a situation when a job script header requests resources for a particular number of parallel processes/threads while the actual number of parallel processes/threads executed exceeds than number.
• Under-subscribing requested resources. Examples include a situation when a job script requests a large number of CPU cores or an exclusive use of an entire node, while the actual job is serial (or uses few parallel processes) and needs only a small amount of memory and low memory bandwidth.
• Running serial code as a parallel job.
• Directly accessing compute nodes and running interactive commands on them. Compute nodes may be accessed only by means of submitting and executing batch jobs.
• Causing a file system to run out of space.
• Allowing illegal access to the HPC systems.
• Storing non research related files or data.

Abandoned accounts

• Accounts that have never been logged into may be deleted after 12 months.
• Accounts not accessed in over 12 month may be deleted in the event NU HPC admins cannot contact the researcher to establish a continued need.
• Accounts may be deleted if their owners are no longer affiliated with NU and have no valid NU email address.