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Policies & Procedures

Our policies section describes the way we manage the HPC services, our support to you, and the expectation Newcastle University has of you, as a user of the HPC services.

These policies are in addition to all existing staff/student guidance, but specifically those of the IT Service, through which the HPC facility is accessed:

Access, Accounts & Projects

Our policies relating to the request and provision of accounts and creation of HPC projects.

Policies - Access, Accounts & Projects


Acceptable Use

Our definitions of what the HPC facilities can be used for and what constitutes unacceptable behaviour or utilisation of resources.

Policies - Acceptable Use


Billing & Project Funds

Managing access to, and payment for the use of premium compute resources.

Policies - Billing & Funds


Data

Data storage, retention and handover policies.

Policies - Data


Software

General software policies and guidance for specific applications.

Policies - Software


Advanced & High Performance Equipment Requests

Policies and workflow for the request of Advanced & High Performance Equipment outside of our normal HPC facility provision.

Advanced & High Performance equipment request


Recent Changes

These pages have recently been changed or updated within the Policies & Procedures section:

Software Policies2025/03/12 15:09John Snowdon