Hewitt Lab Policies: August 20th
2005
The primary mission of the Hewitt Laboratory is for
the instruction
in the Astro 234 and 310 classes and
research experiences of
undergraduates in the department of
Astronomy. Secondary uses may be
accommodated at the
discretion of the laboratory director. Wide use
of
the laboratory for research purposes is encouraged.
Cornell
University policy governs the use of all computer systems on
campus. (http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/policies/).
Abuse of
Hewitt laboratory computing privileges will
result in revocation of
accounts, or escalation through the
mechanisms of the Cornell Abuse
of Computers Policy in more
serious instances.
Excessive use of laboratory resources for
non-academic purposes is
prohibited. Specifically
prohibited is the storage and sharing of
music or video
files, whether or not copyrighted. Particular
attention
is drawn to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (http://
www.cit.cornell.edu/oit/policy/memos/dmca-annual04.html).
Eating,
drinking, and smoking is prohibited in the laboratory.
During
scheduled class times, and other times at the discretion of
the
instructor, the laboratory is reserved for the exclusive use of
the
enrolled members of the class.
If a user will not be using a
machine for more than 10 minutes, the
user is required to
log off the machine to allow access to other
laboratory
users.
Disk and CPU usage is not restricted. Users are
encouraged make as
much use of the lab as possible (e.g.
background processing, parallel
computing, analysing large
datasets). Users should be careful to
ensure such
uses do not impinge unreasonably on other users.
Excessive usage of CPU or disk space on any machine that
interferes
with classes may be interrupted and files
deleted without warning.
Points of Contact:
Laboratory
users are expected to exercise good judgement in calling
after
hours contacts. Major problems with the laboratory is
reasonable. Last minute, late night requests for help
with homework
is not.
user accounts: Tom Shannon, SS
404, shannon@astro.cornell.edu
physical access: Dan Wilcox, SS
111, dwilcox@astro.cornell.edu
laboratory director, Astro 234:
James Lloyd, SS 230 x5-4083,
607-257-3109 (after hours)
jpl@astro.cornell.edu
Astro 310: Jim Bell, SS 402 x5-5911,
607-533-7745 (after hours),
jfb8@cornell.edu