HPC User charter :

-  The main mission of the Intensive Calculation Unit of the University of Tlemcen Abou bekr Belkaid (hereinafter referred UCI-UABT) is to enable the academic community and socio-economic partners to access to hardware, software, applications , databases and communications networks (hereinafter resources) in a scientific high performance calculation (HPC).

-  Allocations of hours of calculation are made by project, led by a coordinator, responsible for the good use of resources allocated by the UCI-UABT.

 1. Application procedures for resource allocation:

-  The request is made through the page submit a project. It is submitted to the acceptance of this charter of use of the UCI-UABT.

- The call for projects is permanent, the submission of applications is possible throughout the year.The user agrees to provide valid professional details and undertakes to report any changes in them to the administrator of the UCI-UABT.

 2. Use of Resource:

-  Users agree to use the resources placed at their disposal by the UCI-UABT with respecting the laws and rules of professional ethics and deontology.

-  The project coordinator and all users associated with it are automatically registered in the mailing list uci@mail.univ-tlemcen.dz to be kept informed of the scheduled maintenance notification that will only be released through it.

-  Access of registered accounts will be created for users of projects that received an allocation of resources. These accounts are personal and not transferable. Users are fully responsible of the use of their account.

-  Access to UCI-UABT resources may be interrupted at any time for reasons of maintenance.

 3. User Data:

- UCI-UABT allocates disk space with quotas for user data.

- Storing, backup and archiving of data and software that the user settles or installs on the UCI-UABT equipment are under its sole responsibility.

-  The consumption of allocated hours is periodically reviewed by the steering committee of the UCI-UABT.

4. Engagement Users:

-  In return for the use of these resources, the coordinator of the project agrees to:

-  Do not use software without official license. Any use or installation of commercial software should be done with the consent of the administrator, after checking the validity of the license.

- To harmonize the use of resources of the UCI-UABT calculation time allocated to the project, whatever the size of the allocated resources, must be less than or equal to 48 hours. Exceptions to this rule will respond to the request of the project coordinator to the Administrator of the UCI-UABT by email at admin-uci@mail.univ-tlemcen.dz which will be studied by the UCI-UABT steering committee.

-  The management node (altair0) must not in any case be used to perform calculations. It is only for the mangement of HPC.

-  Submitting jobs must only be done with SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management). All job started without SLURM will be stopped immediately without notice.

-  Communicate to the UCI-UABT responsible the list of publications and communications made within the framework of the project

-  Thank UCI-UABT in these publications and communications with the sentence: « This work was granted access to the HPC ressources of UCI-UABT “Unité de Calcul Intensif“ of the University Abou bekr Belkaïd of Tlemcen financed by the DGRSDT “Direction Générale de la recherche Scientifique et du Développement Technologique“.

-  Transmit to the steering committee of the UCI-UABT a short report (1 page), at the end of project and / or the end of the year. For publication on the website of the UCI-UABT.

-  In case of non compliance with the rules of use and safety of this Charter, the UCI-UABT steering committee has the right to suspend without notice the access of a user to resources.