Justus3/Policy Agreement

Justus3 Policy - Agreement - V0

For all users of bwForCluster Justus3 for Computational Chemistry and Quantum Sciences the terms of use for services of the Communication and Information Center (kiz) of Ulm University apply.

When registering for the service, you comply with aforementioned terms of use. Additionally you have the following obligations. You...

DFG Grant Reporting Obligations

• agree to use the cluster only for research in accordance with DFG funding conditions
• agree to acknowledge the bwForCluster Justus3 in your publications
• agree to send us references to all publications with contributions by Justus3
• agree to contribute to reports for the DFG

See → Justus3/Acknowledgement

Legal Obligations

• comply with the terms of use of the software manufacturers
• assure that your compute activities comply with the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG) and German Foreign Trade Regulations (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung - AWV), see https://www.bafa.de/DE/Aussenwirtschaft/Ausfuhrkontrolle/Academia/academia_node.html

Compliant Cluster Usage

• agree to report any problem that might endanger the cluster operations
• agree to use the resources carefully (without wasting cores, memory or disk space)
• accept that the system is monitored to prevent misuse
• accept that job and software usage statistics are collected for improving the service and reporting to the DFG
• will avoid swap file I/O operations or any other intense I/O to HOME - swap files of single-node jobs must use the node local disk space
• will not run long cpu/memory intense calculations on login/vis nodes - those nodes are for interactive use, compiling and short tests only
• will not mass-submit very short (minutes) jobs to the batch system

Data Storage Compliance

• acknowledge that your home directory and work spaces will be deleted after expiration of your account (thus you are responsible to backup your files before your account expires)
• will not store important results in workspaces, since they are not included in any backup

Also see

→ .bashrc Do's and Don'ts