ACCRE is a campus-wide cluster that receives financial support from subscriptions by individual researchers and departments.

The Social Science Cluster is composed of individual subscriptions by the departments of Economics and Political Science. Policies for each department may therefore differ or diverge over time.

This page highlights regulations for Econ students, both arising from ACCRE’s general policies, Econ’s specific subscription tier and Econ’s policies for sharing cluster resources.

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Principles:

• ACCRE is a “batch” cluster, and is designed for you to submit computational tasks and receive the output from these. You can use ACCRE interactively for debugging your scripts, but you should be developing and prototyping on your own local PC.
• The Econ Dept subscription entitles Econ PhD students as a whole to an average of 12 cores being used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Users are allowed to “burst”, i.e. exceed this (by a lot) in the short run, but over the long run the groups use must average out to 12 cores per hour. There are some additional limits on number of concurrent processes.