Roles

People who interact with Mufasa have different roles, i.e.:

Job Users

People who use Mufasa to run their processing jobs.

They cannot intervene on the jobs of other users, nor manage users. (Special case: in each research group there may be one specially designated Job User who can create new users.)

Job Users include academic staff and Ph.D. students; sometimes M.Sc. students.

Job Administrators

People who manage users and jobs.

Job Administrators can create users and intervene on jobs and process queues.

One of the Job Administrators for Mufasa is Giulio Fontana, who is also the administrator of this wiki.

System Administrators

People in charge of the setup, configuration and maintenance of Mufasa's hardware and software.

Their tasks include: installing and configuring hardware and software components, managing software updates, executing maintenance activities such as system backups.

For Mufasa's hardware, the System Administrators are the ICT technicians of DEIB.

For Mufasa's software, the System Administrator is Pierluigi Reali.