Roles

Who does what on Mufasa

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

Job Users

People who use Mufasa to run their processing jobs.

They can neither intervene on the jobs of other users, nor manage users. (Special case: in each research group there is one specially designated Job User who can create new users.)

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

Job Administrators

People who manage users and jobs.

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

One of the Job Administrators for Mufasa is Giulio Fontana.

System Administrators

People who are 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.

The System Administrators of Mufasa are the ICT technicians of DEIB.