Except where noted in our terms of service and policy documentation, an active appointment or enrollment with Harvard Business School, or sponsorship by someone with an active appointment, is required for access to RCS resources....

This Agreement establishes the terms and conditions under which HBS will provide you with an account to the Research Computing Platform (RCP)....

To obtain access to Harvard Business School’s technology resources through Research Computing Services (RCS), you must acknowledge this agreement either electronically, on paper, or via request form indicating that you have read, understood, and accepted the statements in this agreement and that you agree to comply with applicable policies and laws governing the use of Harvard Business School’s technology resources and the protection of data privacy....

Access to RCS resources is intended only for legitimate purposes which benefit the research at Harvard University....

The HBS research computing environment, composed of a number of servers and services, is a large, shared resource that is often at significant capacity and stores confidential and sensitive research data. The compute jobs are isolated as much as possible by the LSF scheduler, OS sandboxing (CGROUPS), and identity management permissions. However, there are a number of things to keep in mind while using this shared resource so that the system can work as well as possible for everyone....