ACCEPTABLE-USE

Section: CCB Acceptable Use (7)
Last updated: Wed 10 Jan 16:53:42 GMT 2024
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DEPRECATION NOTICE

This CCB documentation has been superseded by our new website: https://lumin.imm.ox.ac.uk  

OVERVIEW

CCB systems are shared resources, and we endeavor to give a fair share of those resources to all users. As such, we expect everyone to behave in a responsible manner which respects the impact of their actions on others.  

ACCEPTABLE USE

Using our systems as described in our documentation is all considered acceptable. If we have reason to change this we will ensure that such changes are prominently announced on our mailing list.  

UNACCEPTABLE USE

The following are all considered unacceptable use:

- Use of login nodes for running code against anything other then small test datasets, especially where this results in significant numbers of processes, threads, or I/O operations.

- Any form of multi-threaded or parallel internet download, as this can easily saturate our public internet connection. Data must be downloaded to our storage in series before being further processed.

- Running interactive Slurm sessions on anything other than the queues specified in slurm-basics(7).

- Repeadedly running Slurm jobs (or interactive sessions) which request excessive amounts of CPU or memory which is then not used. It is an expectation that jobs will only request the resources that they need and automatic profiling(7) tools are provided to make this process as easy as possible.

- Attempting to circumvent any system restriction, such as CPU/Memory limits or the Slurm queues.

- Using SSH port forwarding over a port with the same numerical ID as another user's login. See ssh-tunnel(7) for a detailed explanation.

Any usage which we consider to be unaccepable may be terminated without warning, and we reserve the right to suspend login accounts if necessary.  

GETTING HELP

You can email the CCB team using the email address help@imm.ox.ac.uk. Using this address ensures your email is logged and assigned a tracking number, and will go to all the core team, which means the appropriate person or people will be able to pick it up.  

COPYRIGHT

This text is copyright University of Oxford and MRC and may not be reproduced or redistributed without permission.  

AUTHOR

Duncan Tooke <duncan.tooke@imm.ox.ac.uk>


 

Index

DEPRECATION NOTICE
OVERVIEW
ACCEPTABLE USE
UNACCEPTABLE USE
GETTING HELP
COPYRIGHT
AUTHOR