Introduction

This document is meant to cover OSG and the Cyber Infrastructure research group usage policies and guidelines.

Processing

• All access to CSE processing resources for other OSG VOs is provided on an opportunistic basis unless otherwise agreed upon
• Non-CSE VOs have a hard limit of 48 hours of wall clock time.
  • If CSE staff are forced to kill running processes, we will attempt to provide warning to the affected VO.
  • Under normal running conditions we will attempt to give four hours notice.
  • During some running conditions we may be forced to remove processes without warning.
• CSE requests that VOs submit using Condor Grid Monitor. VOs unable to submit through grid monitor will be limited in the number of active processes allowed.

Storage

• CSE provides four storage areas: /home, /local, /scratch, and /projects.
  • /localis an area for software installation shared across all worker nodes.
  • /scratch is a read/write area for temporary files shared across all worker nodes. Files will be purged after 1 week.
  • /home is where user home directories reside. This space as 15 Gb per user quota.
  • /projects is an area for all Cyber Infrastructure specific storage.
• Samba access for windows machines is available upon special request to cse-consult. Please be sure to mention what machine you will be accessing from.

References

1. Memebers of the CI research group should see https://wiki.cse.buffalo.edu/services/content/cyberinfrastructure.