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Acceptable use policy

CEDIA's HPC cluster is a shared resource serving research, education and institutional projects. Anyone granted an account commits to the following.

Legitimate use

  • Research, teaching, theses, innovation and institutional services activities associated with your account request.
  • Software must be used in accordance with its licenses (some applications require a current institutional or academic license).
  • We appreciate citing the service ("CEDIA HPC cluster") in publications and derived projects.

Shared resources

  • Request only the resources you need: the cluster belongs to the whole community; queue profiles exist to distribute it fairly.
  • Do not run computations on the access node: all processing goes through the scheduler (SLURM or the visual portal).
  • Keep your files in the designated spaces: $HOME for permanent material, /work for active work. Biweekly backups cover $HOME only; /work and $SCRATCH are not backup systems, and their cleanup/transience is the user's responsibility.
  • Do not store or distribute illegal or unauthorized data (legally restricted material, third parties' personal data without a legal basis, sensitive material from other institutions).

Prohibited

  • Cryptocurrency mining or any computing unrelated to your declared activity.
  • Scanning, attacks or probing against the cluster, its users or external networks.
  • Sharing your account or credentials with third parties.
  • Evading system mechanisms (quotas, queues, permissions, monitoring).
  • Publishing or redistributing results containing third parties' confidential data without authorization.

Monitoring and security

CEDIA operates its Data Center under ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and applies its information security policy. For operations and security purposes, access events, resource usage and network traffic are logged, in accordance with the privacy policy and CEDIA's personal data handling (form to exercise your rights).

Non-compliance

Excessive or improper use may result in restriction or blocking of the account, after notice to the user and, where applicable, to their institution.

Questions about a specific case: NOC — noc@cedia.org.ec.