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Terms of Use

The new Terms of Use, as of 1st April 2025:

HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20250401.pdf

Attention

Only the German version of the Terms of Use is binding.

The key points are:

  • For support reasons, we store your contact data according to our identity management system. (Will be anonymized at least 15 months after the cancellation of the HPC login.) The data of the HPC project (incl. contact of project leader) will be kept for further reference.
    • Our HPC resources may only be used according to the project description.
  • Responsibilities for the project leader:
    • Has to assign a team member with an HPC login as the technical project administrator.
    • The project leader or the administrator will have to add/remove members to their project.
    • The project leader or the administrator has access to accounting data for the project, thus is responsible for resource management
  • These issues cover the data storage in our systems:
    • User's and project's home are backed up, still data loss cannot be ruled out.
    • Upon request, the project leader or the administrator can be given access to a user's directory.
    • Please work in the scratch filesystems.
    • The scratch filesystems are for temporary use only. After a certain time, files may be removed automatically upon prior notice (see work filesystems).
    • Before a user leaves a project the leader/administrator has to store away worthy data. For this, the storage services of ZIH (long term storage, intermediate archive) can be used.
  • Project termination
    • At project's end, jobs cannot be submitted and started any longer.
    • Logins are valid for 30 more days for saving data.
    • Hundred days after project termination, it's files will be deleted in the HPC filesystems.

  • The HPC user agrees to follow the instructions and hints of the support team. In case of non-compliance, she can be disabled for the batch system or banned from the system.

  • Working with logs and HPC performance data

    • For HPC related research ZIH will collect and analyze performance data. Anonymized, it might be shared with research partners.
    • Project lead gets access to recorded performance data of project member's jobs (new)
    • Log data will be kept for long term analysis.

These key points are only a brief summary. If in doubt, please consult the German original.

History

Valid Document
01 Apr 2018 - 31 Mar 2025 HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20180305.pdf
01 Oct 2016 - 31 Mar 2018 HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20160901.pdf
05 Jun 2014 - 30 Sep 2016 HPC-Nutzungsbedingungen_20140606.pdf