Mill Cluster Policies

University of Missouri System Policies

RSS and the Mill adhere to the UM system's stated Acceptable Use policies.

Usage of these resources acknowledge adherence to these guidelines, as well as those listed below.

Account Sharing Policy

Each user must use their own account to access RSS resources. Account sharing is prohibited and will result in account suspensions.

Login Node Use

Under no circumstances should your code be running on the login node - jobs running on the login node will be cancelled by RSS. Repeated violations may result in account suspensions.

Software and Procurement Policy

Open Source Software installed cluster-wide must have an open source (https://opensource.org/licenses) license and be approved by the ITAM process even if there is not a cost associated with it.

Licensed software (any software that requires a license or agreement to be accepted) must follow the procurement process to protect users, their research, and the University. Software must be approved by both security and the ITAM process. For more information about this process please reach out to us!

For widely used software, RSS can facilitate the sharing of license fees and/or may support the cost depending on the cost and situation. Otherwise, users are responsible for funding for fee licensed software and RSS can initiate the procurement process. We require that if the license does not preclude it, and there are not node or other resource limits, that the software is make made available to all users on the cluster. All licensed software installed on the cluster is to be used following the license agreement. We will do our best to install and support a wide rage of scientific software as resources and circumstances dictate but in general we only support scientific software that will run on RHEL in a HPC cluster environment. RSS may not support software that is implicitly/explicitly deprecated by the community.

Container Policy

A majority of scientific software and software libraries can be installed in users’ accounts or in group space. We also provide limited support for Singularity for advanced users who require more control over their computing environment. We cannot knowingly assist users to install software that may put them, the University, or their intellectual property at risk.

Storage Policy

None of the cluster attached storage available to users is backed up in any way by us, this means that if you delete something and don't have a copy somewhere else, it is gone. Please note the data stored on cluster attached storage is limited to Data Class (DCL) 1 and 2 as defined by UM System Data Classifications. If you have need to store things in DCL3 or DCL4 please contact us so we may find a solution for you.