Collaborations

A collaboration represents a group of users using shared resources within the framework of a single research project. The collaboration is the foundation on which user needs are defined. Experiments, projects and scientific groups using CC-IN2P3 resources are therefore linked to a collaboration, which is also the basis for monitoring the use of the resources allocated to it.

To establish a collaboration with CC-IN2P3 please refer to the paragraph detailing the procedure for submit a creation request.

Important

A collaboration whose members are exclusively part of a single research structure staff is called administrative collaboration. To differentiate, we will then call scientific collaboration any collaboration that does not have this “strong” link with the research structure. Please refer also to the paragraph Collaboration membership within the user account management activities.

Collaboration contacts

Each collaboration is represented by one or more collaboration contacts. These people represent their collaboration to CC-IN2P3, and are therefore the key players in exchanges between the collaboration and the CC-IN2P3. The collaboration contact may change throughout the existence of the collaboration.

Any user may find their collaboration contacts list in their User Portal profile page or in their collaboration card <https://id.cc.in2p3.fr/results?ressource_type=collaborations> on the Identity Management Portal.

Managing a collaboration

The User Portal and the Identity Management Portal provide additional functionalities for the collaboration contacts.

The links below are reserved for them: if your account is not associated with a contact role, you may receive an error message. Please report any malfunction to user support.

  • The User Portal gives you access from the [Collaboration] tab:

  • The Identity Management Portal, from the [Account Management] tab, allows you

    • in Actions required, to manage membership and extension requests for the accounts in your collaboration,

    • in History, to view the actions log on the accounts being processed in your collaboration ;

    • in Accounts list, to view the list of users attached to your collaboration and access to all associated information.

Note

From an interactive server, a collaboration contact may also use the following on-line command to obtain the list of the users mebers of their collaboration:

% laboinfo -c <collaboration>

To explore all the command functionalities:

% laboinfo -h

Resource Access Validation

The collaboration contact responsible for accounts validation and their lifecycle management, as well as certain decision-making within the collaboration, is identified on the collaboration card by the label [Collaboration]. The scope and consequences of these tasks depend on the type of collaboration in which they operate.

Note

To enable responsive handling of these tasks, it is advisable to define in a collaboration several contacts with the same validator role.

Please find below the list of tasks required:

  • Manage the collaboration memberships:

    • validate the users’ membership requests,

    • set or modify the expiration date for a user’s membership,

    • confirm every 5 years the validity of a user’s membership.

  • Define the resources request,

  • propose the roles of technical contacts within the collaboration.

Important

For any IN2P3 scientific collaboration, the contact may have the additional role of validator of Non-IN2P3 accounts. This role is necessary to authorize the membership to the collaboration of users from research structures outside IN2P3. If necessary, please request it to user support.

Technical roles

Any [Collaboration] contact may wish to delegate administrative roles concerning the management of CC-IN2P3 resources. They can assign the following roles to other members of their collaboration by sending a ticket to user support.

Computing contact

They oversee the use of the computing resources allocated to the collaboration and is CC-IN2P3 primary contact in the event of incidents.

Storage contact

They oversee the use of storage resources allocated to the collaboration and is CC-IN2P3 primary contact in the event of incidents.

Reporting contact

They have access to specific information on the User Portal enabling him/her to view resource consumption details by collaboration members.

The calculation and storage contacts, as well as the collaboration contact, also have the “reporting” role.

Important

Technical contacts will not have the responsibilities of a collaboration contact.

Production accounts

A production account allows to carry out tasks on behalf of the collaboration rather than on behalf of one of its members (e.g. data transfers, recurring tasks, computing production management, software deployments, robots, daemons/services execution…).

These accounts are for the exclusive use of collaboration members. Several production accounts can be defined for a single collaboration. Once created, the life cycle of the production account is linked to the collaboration lifecycle.

The production account login is not limited in character length, but must respect the following syntax:

prod_<collaboration>_<label>

where <label> (optional suffix) may identify different production accounts (different uses) for the same collaboration.

To create a production account, a collaboration contact must send a ticket to user support, specifying the account managers’ e-mail addresses list and the <label> if necessary. The addresses will be organized under an alias that will facilitate communication between CC-IN2P3 and the managers:

prod_<collaboration>_<label>@cc.in2p3.fr

As an alternative, they can simply provide an alias (with no naming restrictions) whose list of e-mail addresses will be managed by the collaboration itself.

Attention

To change or update the production account password, please use the online command from an interactive server.

Create a new collaboration

The creation of a new collaboration is subject to validation by CC-IN2P3 management. Please submit your request to our user support, specifying the following information :

  • Administrative definition of the collaboration

    • collaboration name,

    • administrative responsible (last name, first name, email),

    • information on collaboration contact:

      • last name, first name, email,

      • account identifier (if any),

      • laboratory of affiliation,

      • email of CNRS Standard certificate (if any).

    • other contacts if necessary:

      • give the same information as for the first contact.

  • Collaboration activity (define in a few words):

    • for example: high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, biology, earth sciences, human and social sciences…

    • establish a first draft of the data management plan.

  • Estimates of resource requirements for the coming year: