Institutional User Agreements

All  users must agree to, and abide by, the NERSC Appropriate Use policies. In addition, an institutional User Agreement between Berkeley Lab and the project's sponsoring organization is required if the project is not federally (U.S.) funded (or is involved in proprietary research, which is only permitted under exceptional circumstances and with written permission from the NERSC Director.)

If your project requires an institutional User Agreement with Berkeley Lab, check the list of organizations that have current institutional User Agreements (or have one in the works) shown below. If you do not find your organization there, please contact NERSC Allocations at [email protected] or through the ticket interface.

User Agreements are valid for up to five years and cover only work done at NERSC. The User Agreement is the document that permits the User and/or the home organization to retain ownership of intellectual property and defines liability for use of DOE User Facilities. If a User Agreement is required (see above) and one is not in place, the University of California (as operator of LBNL) may claim first and exclusive rights to any intellectual property conceived or reduced to practice as a result of the use of NERSC facility resources. 

* - ERCAP = standard DOE Mission Science allocation
** - ALCC Proprietary User Agreement, Patent waiver application and addendum.

Institutional User Agreements

List of organizations that have institutional Non-Proprietary User Agreements in place (or process) with Berkeley Lab for use of NERSC resources.