Policies and Guidelines

SMU Policies

Users must comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and SMU policies when using HPC resources. This includes, but is not limited to, SMU’s acceptable use policy

O’Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute Community Guidelines

Please review the ODSRCI Guidelines

Purge Policy

Data stored in $SCRATCH on M3 or the SuperPod has a time based quota. Data older than 60 days will be purged (deleted) without warning. $SCRATCH is intended as high performance, temporary storage for jobs.

If data is needed for a longer period of time, it should be stored in $WORK (8 TB limit) or $HOME directories (200 GB). If those are also insuffiencient, please contact us to discuss options.

Account and Account Password Sharing Policy

No two individuals should share the same HPC account, nor should two individuals share the password of the same account. Each individual is entitled to have their own account hence please request one.

Data Transfer Nodes

Access to data tranfer nodes is available by request and legitimate need. These nodes are meant only for transferring large amounts data to/from HPC resources. They should not be used for computational jobs.