Policies and Terms of Use: Difference between revisions

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This page explains who may use Anunna, how access is granted, and the main terms that apply when using the cluster.

Eligibility

Anunna is available to users who need high-performance computing and AI resources to support research, education or innovation. See Mission and Governance and Our User Community for more information.

Access is not automatic. An Anunna account must be created before you can log in and use the cluster.

Requesting access

To request an account, contact the HPC team through Support.

Use of resources

Anunna is a shared computing environment. Compute resources are allocated by the SLURM scheduler. The priority of your jobs and the partitions you can use depend on the Quality of Service (QoS) and partitions assigned to your account. See Scheduler Overview (Slurm).

Please use shared resources responsibly and considerately. See the Responsible Use Policy for more information.

Costs

Use of Anunna is not free of charge. Compute and storage are charged according to the published Tariffs.

From 1 January 2027, internal WUR use will be funded through the Generic Research budget and will no longer be charged separately to individual research projects.

Terms of use

When using Anunna, please follow these basic principles:

Only request the resources you need. Do not reserve more compute capacity than is required for your jobs.
Keep data in the right place. Do not store data longer than necessary. Data that needs to be retained for longer-term use should be moved to Archive. FB-IT may regularly clean up data stored in Scratch.
Clean up when you are finished. When you no longer need Anunna or your access ends, your data should be removed from the cluster.

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+This page explains who may use Anunna, how access is granted, and the main terms that apply when using the cluster.
-This page covers who may use Anunna, how access is granted, and the terms that apply to using the cluster.
 == Eligibility ==
+Anunna is available to users who need high-performance computing and AI resources to support research, education or innovation. See [[Mission and Governance]] and [[Our User Community]] for more information.
-Anunna is open to all WUR research groups, and to other organisations and companies running collaborative projects with WUR (see [[Mission and Governance]]). Access is not automatic: an account must be created for you by FB-IT before you can log in.
+Access is not automatic. An Anunna account must be created before you can log in and use the cluster.
 == Requesting access ==
+To request an account, contact the HPC team through [[Support]].
-To request an account, contact the HPC team through [[Support]]. <!-- TODO: confirm the current account-request route and any per-group access contacts; the old per-partner contact roster (Breed4Food era) was removed. A dedicated "Account Application Process" page is planned. -->
 == Use of resources ==
+Anunna is a shared computing environment. Compute resources are allocated by the SLURM scheduler. The priority of your jobs and the partitions you can use depend on the Quality of Service (QoS) and partitions assigned to your account. See [[Scheduler Overview (Slurm)]].
-Compute resources are shared and are allocated by the SLURM scheduler. How much priority your jobs get, and which partitions you can submit to, depends on the Quality of Service and partitions granted to your account — see [[Scheduler Overview (Slurm)]]. Reasonable, considerate use is expected of everyone; see the [[Responsible Use Policy]].
+Please use shared resources responsibly and considerately. See the [[Responsible Use Policy]] for more information.
 == Costs ==
+Use of Anunna is not free of charge. Compute and storage are charged according to the published [[Tariffs]].
-Use of Anunna is not free of charge. Compute and storage are billed according to the published tariffs — see [[Tariffs]].
+From '''1 January 2027''', internal WUR use will be funded through the Generic Research budget and will no longer be charged separately to individual research projects.
 == Terms of use ==
+When using Anunna, please follow these basic principles:
+* '''Only request the resources you need.''' Do not reserve more compute capacity than is required for your jobs.
+* '''Keep data in the right place.''' Do not store data longer than necessary. Data that needs to be retained for longer-term use should be moved to [[Archive]]. FB-IT may regularly clean up data stored in [[Scratch]].
+* '''Clean up when you are finished.''' When you no longer need Anunna or your access ends, your data should be removed from the cluster.
-<!-- TODO: add the formal terms of use / acceptable-use policy (data ownership and responsibilities, security obligations, consequences of misuse, etc.). -->
 == See also ==