Acceptable Use

FAS Research Computing (FASRC) cluster access and usage is intended only for legitimate purposes which benefit research Harvard University.  Access must be authorized by the faculty or management of the FAS or those of our partner schools, and by the staff of Research Computing.  Account access should only be granted for the purposes necessary to accomplish the goals of Harvard University and its research projects.  All active FAS RC account holders are subscribed to our notifications mailing list which is a requirement for all users.

Billing

Cluster usage and additional resources such as storage may be subject to charges to the PI, school, or department.  All billing is done exclusively via Harvard internal billing codes at the Tub/school level. See our billing FAQ.

Academic and Administrative Use

The FASRC clusters (Cannon and FASSE) are for research only and cannot be used for academic purposes. Harvard provides an Academic Cluster for those purposes.

FASRC cluster storage is for research data and results and is not suitable for administrative data storage.

Accounts

Accounts and account credential sharing is not allowed under university policies and reasonable precaution should be taken to keep your account credentials secure and private. No university staff will ever ask for your password.  Additionally, a user may have only one account at FASRC. All individual account holders, whether Harvard affiliates or outside collaborators agree to be held accountable by the Harvard University Electronic Access and Information Security polices: http://huit.harvard.edu/information-technology-policies. In addition, researchers should make themselves familiar with the university research policies maintained by the Provost’s Office.

All account holders agree to respect requests from support staff around how they use the system. The support staff may, as needed, impose whatever policies are required to ensure the system runs effectively for all users of the system.

Data Security

The Cannon cluster is for data rated as Level 2 or below. Level 3 data must be secured and processed on the FASSE cluster and storage. Level 4 or above data is not allowed on any FASRC cluster or storage.

Customs and Responsibilities

In addition, the FASRC clusters and storage are shared resourcesm so please familiarize yourself with our Cluster Customs and Responsibilities.