Computing and Data

• Policies: All users are required to adhere to the Charter for the use of the computing resources at the ESRF.
• Wi-Fi access:
  • Eduroam: Available at ESRF, ILL, and IBS for anyone with a valid eduroam account.
  • EPN_Visitors: Login with the email address registered in your ESRF user account and your user account password (in lowercase).

ESRF data management timelines - access to data and services.

• Data policy: The ESRF Data Policy, endorsed by the ESRF Council in 2015 and updated in 2023, governs how experimental data are managed and shared. It implements the principles of Open Science and FAIR data.
• Data storage: You have access to the data of the proposals you are participating in, either as an Investigator on the proposal or as a user participating in the experiment and registered on the A Form. The Principal Investigator (PI) can grant access to additional collaborators through the Data Portal after the experiment. Data remain available on disk for 90 days after the end of the experiment, after which they are archived for long-term preservation. After this period, you can request data restoration by emailing helpdesk@esrf.fr.
• Data download: You can download your data either via Globus (recommended) for large and reliable transfers, or manually through standard file copy tools.
• Remote access: The Guacamole remote desktop service lets you monitor and control beamline computers during experiments.
• Data processing: You have access to the Slurm cluster for data analysis, and can use tools like VISA to create virtual compute instances and Jupyter-Slurm notebooks for interactive code, text, and visualisations.
• Data citation / DOI: You must cite the DOIs of your data in publications. More information can be found  here.