Good citizenship guide

• Please remember that login nodes are a shared resource

  • Interactive jobs

  • Testing

  • Compilation

  • Post-analysis

• Please do not run interactive jobs on batch queues unless essential

  • in which case please do not let them remain idle

    • Idle jobs in queues waste precious compute time

• Please do not run long non-interactive jobs on login nodes

  • for more than a few seconds

  • These are better submitted to the queues

• Please do not run jobs that will hog memory on login nodes

• Do not share your account details with anyone else

  • They should apply for their own account

• Follow common sense

  • Do not use COSMA as a VPN

  • Do not attempt to use sudo

  • Do not install dodgy or malicious software

  • Do not try to circumvent any software licences

  • Do not run unlicenced or illegal software

  • Only use COSMA for your authorised scientific workloads

• If you see problems, please let us know

There are some policies which should be adhered to.