BadgerCompute Policies

BadgerCompute is an interactive JuypterLab service operated by the Center for High Throughput Computing for use by UW - Madison affiliates with a valid UW - Madison NetID. This page lists policies for access and use.

Any UW - Madison affiliate can access BadgerCompute after completing the Canvas certification course. Annual re-certification is required. You must agree to these policies in order to complete the course.

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Acceptable Use Policy

For the full document detailing the policies, see our Acceptable Use Policy page.

Highlights

By using BadgerCompute, you agree:

To use BadgerCompute for academic purposes ONLY and not for financial gain (such as for-profit work or cryptocurrency mining) nor for any unlawful purpose.
Not to use BadgerCompute for work with restricted data, such as HIPAA-protected or export-controlled data.
To securely manage your NetID and Password and any other university credentials used to access BadgerCompute.
To renew access to BadgerCompute once a year by completing the certification course, including a review of these policies.
To be responsible for backing up any important data that you've placed in - or generated using - BadgerCompute.

Data Retention Policy

Each BadgerCompute user is allocated 20 GB of persistent storage (in the work subfolder of the initial file view). The data in this storage is retained for up to 30 days after your last login. After 30 days without logging in BadgerCompute, your data will be automatically deleted.

BadgerCompute is not backed up

It is intended for temporary, convenient storage only.

You should never store your only copy of important data on BadgerCompute. Always keep external backups in systems like ResearchDrive or other cloud storage platforms.

BadgerCompute administrators reserve the right to remove any data from user storage if needed to maintain overall system performance.

Availability

BadgerCompute is a shared computing platform with limited capacity, intended to serve the entire UW-Madison community. While we strive to provide a responsive experience, during peak usage periods you may experience increased wait times when launching notebooks.

Resources on BadgerCompute are provisioned on a best-effort basis — availability is not guaranteed. There are no resource reservations or service-level promises. All users are expected to be mindful of their impact on shared capacity.

Users should not expect to exceed the following resource allocation per notebook:

CPU: 4 cores
Memory: 16 GB RAM
GPU (if requested): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 10GB of GPU RAM, capability 7.5

Privacy Notice

BadgerCompute administrators collect information about the users of BadgerCompute and it is used solely for managing the service, in adherence with the UW - Madison Privacy Notice.

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