Membership Responsibilities, and Acceptable Use Policy

Introduction

All users who are members of the VO or users from other VOs who have been given
VO-wide permission to access SBGrid/NEBioGrid computing and storage resources
must abide by a common set of basic rules. This document lists those basic
rules.  Yes, these are boring to read.  No, they haven't been written by a
lawyer.  Yes, they contain some really useful and pertinent points.  Please do
read them.


Users Agreement



Compute resources must only be used for computing relevant to the mandate
of the VO with which the user authenticates, and only for non-commercial
purposes. ____

Data storage is provided on a best-effort basis.  Users are responsible for
managing their data responsibly.  Only data which is required for future access
and related to the VO's mandate may be placed in persistent storage.  Abuse of
the persistent storage facilities may result in summary removal of files, or
revocation of user or VO resource access.  ____

Users associated with SBGrid will constrain their use of OSG to
non-commercial structural biology computing and data sets. ____

Users associated with NEBioGrid will constrain their use of OSG to
non-commercial life-sciences/biomedical computing and data sets. ____

Computations utilizing OSG resources must make every effort to
operate at > 50% CPU efficiency.  It is unacceptable for grid jobs to remain
idle for long periods of time while holding a job slot.  OSG jobs should aim to
use 10 minutes to 10 hours of wall clock time.  Shorter and longer jobs should
be avoided, may not run reliably, and may be cancelled. ____

Use of the grid is at your own risk. There is no guarantee that the grid
will be available at any time or that it will suit any purpose.  ____
 
Users may not utilize a proxy certificate with a lifetime of more than 31
days. ____

Users consent to summary details of their participation and activity
within OSG being made publicly available. ____

You shall not use the grid for any unlawful purpose and not (attempt to)
breach or circumvent any grid administrative or security controls. You shall
respect copyright and confidentiality agreements and protect your grid
credentials (e.g. private keys, passwords), sensitive data and files.  ____
 
You shall immediately report any known or suspected security breach or
misuse of the grid or grid credentials to the incident reporting locations
specified by the VO and to the relevant credential issuing authorities.  ____
 
Logged information, including information provided by you for registration
purposes, shall be used for administrative, operational, accounting, monitoring
and security purposes only. This information may be disclosed to other
organizations anywhere in the world for these purposes. Although efforts are
made to maintain confidentiality, no guarantees are given.  ____
 
The Resource Providers, the VOs and the grid operators are entitled to
regulate and terminate access for administrative, operational and security
purposes and you shall immediately comply with their instructions.  ____
 
You are liable for the consequences of any violation by you of these
conditions of use.  ____