Our department’s mission is to provide the best possible high performance computing services and resources to facilitate and optimize research activities at the University of Wyoming. This page serves as an index for ARCC Policies applicable to all end-users accessing ARCC resources. These policies and procedures are intended to ensure that UW Research Computing resources are used effectively in support UW's research programs.

1. General Policies

1.1 Terms of Use

1.1.1 UW Acceptable Use Policy
1.1.2 ARCC Specific Acceptable Use Policy
1.1.3 User Responsibilities

1.1.3.1 User Prerequisites
1.1.3.2 User Responsibilities
1.1.3.3 PI Responsibilities
1.1.3.4 Research Use
1.1.3.5 User Data Requirements
1.1.3.6 Compliance with Requests
1.1.3.7 E-mail Monitoring
1.1.3.8 Account Compromise Notification

1.1.4 Appropriate Use

1.1.4.1 Unauthorized Access
1.1.4.2 Altering Authorized Access
1.1.4.3 Reconstruction of Information or Software
1.1.4.4 Data Modification or Destruction
1.1.4.5 Malicious Software
1.1.4.6 Denial of Service
1.1.4.7 Pornographic Materials
1.1.4.8 Harassment

1.2 Privacy

1.2.1 Data Collection
1.2.2 Monitoring
1.2.3 Data Sharing

1.2.3.1 Reasonable prevention for unauthorized access and disclosure
1.2.3.2 Third-party access
1.2.3.3 Legal right of Access
1.2.3.4 Incident response disclosure

1.2.4 Data Access and Control

1.2.4.1 OFAC Regulatory Compliance
1.2.4.2 Restricted Data
1.2.4.3 System Security
1.2.4.4 Software Licensing Compliance
1.2.4.5 Data Retention

1.3 Acknowledgment

1.3.1 Annual Reporting
1.3.2 Citation
1.3.3 Branding

2. ARCC Resource Policies

2.1 ARCC HPC Policies

2.1.1 Usage of Login Nodes
2.1.2 Account Policy
2.1.3 Job Scheduling Policy
2.1.4 Software Policies
2.1.5 Storage Policy

2.1.5.1 Beartooth (AKA TetonCreek) Storage Allocations
2.1.5.2 Alcova Storage Policy

2.2. Costs and Charges

2.2.1 HPC Compute
2.2.2 Storage Costs
2.2.3 Software Resource Costs
2.2.4 User Account Costs