People using the Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) must be a member of a Research Computing Project. BU faculty may create a Research Computing Project<\/a>, serve as the Lead Project Investigator, and add their collaborators (students, researchers outside of BU, etc.) to their project.<\/p>\n Faculty members may create and maintain as many Projects as they need in order to conveniently manage their research activities. This can include creating a separate project to support the work of one or more graduate students, even if that work is different from the faculty member\u2019s own research.<\/p>\n If you are interested in using the SCC<\/a>, you either need to be added to an existing project or apply (or have a faculty member you are working with apply) to create a new project. There are also a couple of other more limited account options available. Once you have an account, you can view your usage, change your default project, and update contact information<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every SCC user, Lead Project Investigator (LPI), IT\/Administrative Contact, and Buy-in Computing or Storage owner or authorizer has a personalized SCC Management<\/a> web site to manage information about their account, projects, and Buy-in resources.<\/p>\n All of the projects and accounts on the SCC are managed by a web-based system where the Lead Project Investigator (or their optional IT\/Administrative Contact)\u00a0submits web forms to create new projects, add users to existing projects, request resources, monitor usage, etc.<\/p>\n Descriptions of project maintenance, resource request, and monitoring<\/a> policies and forms are available.<\/p>\n Those participating in the Research Computing Buy-in Program<\/a>, through purchasing either Computing or Storage resources, can set the policies that govern the usage of their Computing nodes<\/a> and allocate their purchased Storage space to whatever Research Computing Projects they wish<\/a>.<\/p>\n Your usage of the SCC and Linux Virtual Lab must abide by the BU Ethics Policy<\/a> and the BU Information Security Policy and Guides<\/a>.<\/p>\nGetting an SCC Account and Managing it<\/h2>\n
SCC Management Page<\/h2>\n
Managing your Project<\/h2>\n
Managing Buy-in Computing & Storage Resources<\/h2>\n
Usage Policies<\/h2>\n