The CSCS code of conduct (version of April 25, 2014) aims to outline the responsibilities and the proper practices for CSCS user community.
The User Regulations define the basic guidelines for the usage of CSCS computing resources. The right to access CSCS resources may be revoked to whoever breaches any of the user regulations.
Data Retention Policies
Data belonging to active projects in the filesystems /users, /project and /store are under backup. There is no backup for data under the /scratch filesystem, therefore no data recovery is possible in case of accidental loss or for data deleted due to the cleaning policy implemented on this filesystem.
Please note that the long term storage service is granted as far as your project is active and the data will be removed without further notice 3 months after the expiration of the project: please check the applicable filesystem policies for the grace period granted after the expiration of the project.
Furthermore, as soon as your project expires, the backup of the data belonging to the project will be disabled immediately: therefore no data backup will be available anymore after the final data removal.
Fair Usage of Shared Resources
The Slurm scheduling system is a shared resource that can handle a limited amount of batch jobs and interactive commands simultaneously. Therefore users are not supposed to submit arbitrary amounts of Slurm jobs and commands at the same time, as doing so would infringe our fair usage policy.
Let us also remind you that running applications on the login nodes is not allowed, as they are a shared resource too. Please submit your simulations with the Slurm scheduler, in order to allocate and run your jobs on a compute node: heavy processes running on the login nodes will be terminated.