Requesting Science-IT department storage space

Existing data groups and responsible contacts:

Requesting to be added to a group

Note

CS department: New! Group owners/managers can add members to their groups self-service. Go to https://domesti.cs.aalto.fi from Aalto networks, over VPN, or remote desktop at https://vdi.aalto.fi, and it should be obvious.

Send an email to the responsible contact (see above) and CC the group owner or responsible person, and include this information:

  • Group name that you request to join

  • copy and paste this statement, or something similar: “I am aware that all data stored here is managed by the group’s owner and have read the data management policies.”

  • Ask the group owner to reply with confirmation.

  • Do you need access to scratch or work? If so, you need a Triton account and you can request it now. If you don’t, you’ll get “input/output error” and be very confused.

  • Example:

    Hi, I (account=omes1) would like to join the group myprof. I am aware that all data stored here is managed by the group’s owner and have read the data management policies. $professor_name, please reply confirming my addition.

Requesting a new group

Send an email to the responsible contact (see above) with the following information. Group owners should be long-term (e.g. professor level) staff.

  • Requested group name (you can check the name from the lists below)

  • Owner of data (prof or long-term staff member)

  • Other responsible people who can authorized adding new members to the group. (they can reply and say “yes” when someone asks to join the group.)

  • Who is responsible for data should you become unavailable (default: supervisor who is probably head of department).

  • Initial members

  • Expiration time (default=max 2 years, extendable. max 5 years archive). We will ping you for management/renewal then.

  • Which filesystems and what quota. (project, archive, scratch). See the the storage page.

  • Basic description of purpose of group.

  • Is there any confidential or personal data (see above for disclaimer).

  • Any other notes that CS-IT should enforce, for example check NDA before giving access.

  • Example:

    I would like to request a new group coolproject. I am the owner, but my postdoc Tiina Tekkari can also approve adding members. (Should I become unavailable, my colleague Anna Algorithmi (also a professor here) can provide advice on what to do with the data)

    We would like 20GB on the project filesystem.

    This is for our day to day work in algorithms development, we don’t expect anything too confidential.