Acceptable Use and Code of Conduct

The ORCD systems are operated by the MIT Office of Research Computing and Data and certain appropriate common sense rules apply to working on it.

Acceptable Use Guidelines

ORCD systems are intended for research associated with MIT projects or collaborations around MIT research projects. That can cover a lot of things, but all account holders are expected to use judgement and apply common sense to their use of the system. The system is not to be used to support commercial activities or for non-MIT related activities. It is not to be used for anything that might be construed as illegal or criminal. Datasets on the system must have been obtained legitimately and the system is not to be used for working with unanonymized data or data subject to ITAR or other national security restrictions. See the Data Security and Privacy page for more information about data. If you are unsure about a planned use, please feel free to contact orcd-help@mit.edu.

All systems are covered by MIT Institute wide policies for acceptable use of information technology, including the MITnet Rules of Use. For data practices refer to our page on Data Security and Privacy and the links on that page, particularly MIT's page on Information Protection.

Account holders should not share accounts and should take reasonable precautions to ensure that credentials for accessing the system (passwords, ssh keys, etc.) are kept secure. All account holders agree to respect requests from support staff around how they use the system. The support staff may, as needed, impose whatever policies are required to ensure the system runs well for all projects on the system.

Code of Conduct

ORCD systems are shared resource used by a wide community. All people involved in its use and operations should try their utmost to be courteous and kind at all times. Members of the ORCD community should be respectful toward one another and endeavor to ensure a welcoming and collegial environment for all. Account holders are also expected to respect privacy of others activities on the system, and not to try to gain access to parts of the system they are not explicitly authorized to access.