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Lochness User Policies

Access and usages policies for the lochness cluster

  • Access

    • Faculty members can request access to lochness for themselves and their students by sending an email to hpc@njit.edu. There is no charge for using lochness.
    • For courses, send an email to hpc@njit.edu to discuss requirements

  • Storage

    • Users are given a quota of 100GB
    • Shared research directory with 500 GB quota is available upon request

  • Scheduling

    • The SLURM scheduler uses a “fair share” algorithm to assign priority to jobs. The “fair share” algorithm takes into account factors such as user history, wall time request, etc … to assign priority. The “fair share” algorithm is configure to favor smaller jobs.
    • Limits
      • Wall time: 30 Days. Note that shorter wall time receive higher priority.
    • Cores/RAM: No limit but we request users be considerate. There are limited resources for public access.

  • Condo

    • Lochness has a private pool ownership model. Users buy nodes which are then incorporated into the cluster as a private partition.

Warning

As of Jan 16, no new Lochness accounts will be created and Lochness will be decommissioned once the Wulver migration is complete.