ACRC HPC usage policy
ACRC reserve the right to make amendments to this usage policy without notice, as required to ensure availability, security and fair usage of the services provided.
- Users must not run jobs on the login nodes. All production jobs must be run on the compute nodes via the queueing system.
- Any job found running on the login node will be killed without notice.
- Any user found repeatedly running jobs on the login nodes may have their account suspended for a period of time to be determined by the HPC Executive Committee.
- The login nodes are reserved for editing code and job scripts, code compilation, data movement and submitting jobs.
- Users who need to test their code before submitting a production job should use the test partition.
- Job submissions must only request required resources, waste of cluster resources by poorly scheduled jobs may result in your jobs being held or deleted.
- Job submissions must only use their allocated resources, using additional resources not allocated by the scheduler may result in the job being automatically or manually deleted.
- Use of the cluster is granted for academic and administrative purposes related to work or study at the University only.
- Teaching on the ACRC clusters should be prior arrangement. Please let the ACRC know about your teaching by following the HPC teaching application process at least 6 weeks before any course begins.
- Jobs or processes that are having an adverse effect on the cluster may be deleted / killed / held as required by ACRC with no prior notification.
- Cryptocurrency mining and blockchain research must not be run on -University of Bristol Systems except by prior arrangement and approval as outlined in the University’s Information Security Policy.
- All new ACRC HPC users should complete the ACRC Intro to HPC training course (or equivalent) before submitting any jobs to the clusters.
ACRC HPC account suspension
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Users found to be in breach of any statute in this usage policy will be reported to the HPC Executive for a decision regarding the suspension of their HPC access.
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Suspended users may not access ACRC Research Systems.
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Suspended users may be reinstated at the discretion of HPC Executive and ACRC; requests for reinstatement must come from the user's supervisor, line manager or sponsor.
Please note that in addition to this HPC usage policy users must also comply with the University’s Information Security Policy for Acceptable Use of University Information Systems: ISP-09.pdf (bristol.ac.uk) and Data Protection polices.