On this page, you find information about your responsibilities and tasks as Project Leader/Principal Investigator or Executive Office (XO).
The Project Leader`s responsibility
Your main tasks as a Project Leader is applying for resources, managing allocations, managing user access to the project, and acknowledging the use of resources in publications.
Click on the steps below to read more about the Project leader's responsibilities. The list is organised logically from the perspective of a new project. If you've just been assigned a new project, we recommend proceeding through the steps in the order presented.
1. Description of roles
The Project Leader/Principal Investigator can appoint Executive Officers (XO) to the project. This can help streamline project management and user access control.
Send an email to contact@sigma2.no, include the project number in your email, and provide the full name of the person you would like to add or remove as an XO.
The Executive Officer (XO) role acts as an Assistant Project Leader. The XO can confirm user applications and manage users access.
You find more information about user access below.
2. Apply for resources
It is the responsibility of the Project Leader/Principal Investigator to apply for resources. The resouces are granted on a period basis for 6 months at a team, and announced through regular calls.
Note that you are required to submit an application for each period you need resources.
Information about future resource requirements may still be provided through the application form, but will only be used by the administration for resource planning.
3. Manage user access
As a Project Leader/Principal Investigator or XO, you have the authority to grant access to your project on our infrastructure. Colleagues, both internal and external, are welcome to join, regardless of whether they are based in Norway or other countries.
If the individual already has a user account on our infrastructure, you can directly add them via our resource administration system.
The Project Leader needs a user account
Project Leaders do not automatically receive an account when applying for and receiving projects. If you plan to use the resources yourself, you also need to have a user account and manage your own access through our resource administration system.
Furthermore, projects are not set up on the systems until at least one user has been granted access.
Simplified user access
The project leader or XO can enable auto validation for user applications to their project.
This means:
- User application's to the project don't need manual approval from the project leader or XO.
- If a user application can be automatically approved, a user account will be created immediately.
Auto validation can be enabled on the "Project Users" page. To access this page, click "projects" in the top navbar. Then click "Assign Users" for the selected project.
To enable this you need beta-tester rights. Contact us at contact@sigma2.no to get the necessary rights.
4. Handle over-usage or under-usage of resource
We acknowledge that accurately estimating the required resources can present a challenge.
Over-usage
There may be instances where the allocated resources prove insufficient. In such cases, we provide the option to apply for additional quota during an ongoing period.
You are only required to specify the additional resources needed (not the total quota) and provide a brief explanation of the requirements. We typically process these applications within one to two working days.
Lower priority
Please be aware that additional quotas on the HPC facilities are assigned a lower priority in the queue system.
Under-usage
There may be instances where changes in project activity result in an inability to utilise all allocated resources within the current period.
To assist us with forecasting, booking, and allocations, we kindly request that you inform us at contact@sigma2.no if you anticipate an unused quota.
Please include details about the project and the amount of quota that can be reduced, enabling us to reallocate these resources to other projects.
Note that new applications are evaluated based on usage. Ensure to include information in the application form about under-usage when applying for the next period.
5. Acknowledgement of use
Projects must acknowledge using the national e-infrastructure resources in all dissemination and scientific publications.
Any papers, presentations, or other publications that feature work facilitated by Sigma2 should include this acknowledgement or citation.
This also applies to popular science dissemination.
6. Tag publications in Cristin
Projects granted access to the national e-infrastructure facilities are obligated to provide a list of any publications resulting from the utilisation of these resources.
New projects are exempt from this requirement until they have completed six periods of use (equivalent to three years).
Continued access to the resources necessitates at least one publication within the last 6 periods.
Co-authors
Please be aware that co-authors are also able to tag publications. If none of the project members have access to Cristin, kindly contact us for assistance.
Tagged publications from Cristin are retrieved by our administrative system on a nightly basis.
7. Project decommissioning
To ensure optimal use of the e-infrastructure resources, projects without an active allocation are subject to decommissioning.
You must read our data decommissioning policies to understand the handling of any remaining data on the infrastructure following the completion of the project.
If you have any questions not addressed in this guide, please feel free to reach out at contact@sigma2.no.