Collaboration

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.

Resources requests

• Resources requests
  • List of available resources
  • SPS space allocation criteria

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:

  • Please refer to page Resource requests.

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…). Its login will comply with the following syntax:

prod_<collaboration>_<label>

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

Request a production account

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

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

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

Important

• Several production accounts may be defined for a single collaboration.

• These accounts are for the exclusive use of collaboration members.

Manage a production account

Once created, the lifecycle of a production account is bound to the collaboration lifecycle.

The collaboration contacts are responsible for the production accounts associated to their collaboration. They will receive password expiration notifications and must update the password using the command-line tool from an interactive server.

The email alias associated to the account will facilitate direct communication between CC-IN2P3 administrators and users of the production account.