DRAFT Usage Policy Document from the UJ Easter Recess Workshop, on 10.4.2009
Source of this policy
The Usage Policy is defined by the recognised User Groups of the Research Cluster; see the User Groups and MoU.
This policy may be changed at any time with a 75% quorum of the Parties to the Agreement
Usage Policy for Local Access
- Lowest possible barrier to entry
- Accounts available to
- UJ Staff / Students : on e-mailed request with a few sentences on what they want to do
- Will establish VO groups as well for group accounts
- Access to short queue and sandbox is on the minimal threshold of 1 a.i.
- Full access for students needs letter of support from supervisor. They then get the normal priority queue
- After 1000 hours of CPU time, it will be necessary to submit an abstract and a graphic for the www-site.
- Commercial access
- Billing …. Costing based on cost of Cluster amortised over three years
- Donation of kit gives % entitlement
- Donations have lifetime for amortisation of equipment
- Damages ….. clause that waives all responsibility of management
- When groups make infrastructure donations, they get an in principle guaranteed access, but where the quantity amortises with time.
- If usage grows beyond capacity
- Increase size of cluster, split cluster
- May need to have a Program Advisory Committee (Parties to the Agreement)
- Acknowledgement necessary when work using this site is published.
Usage Policy for GRID Access
- Already signed JRU for SAgrid : 20% of site
Allow Bruce (Becker) latitude to negotiate something like this with all other sites at SAgrid. The amount may scale with size of site.
- Participation in OSG has a policy of 10% of the site available to OSG.
- Priority levels for Jobs
- Ranks for Queues
- Implementation via a queue for a VO
- UJ VO
- SAGrid VO
- OSG VO
- Can PBS do this
- Blacklisting due to abuse
- Discuss with source of abuse
- Notify CA – get certificate revoked
- Share blacklist
