DeiC Interactive HPC is run by Danish universities and provided via the the UCloud platform located in Denmark at the eScience center at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and CLAAUDIA at Aalborg University, which both hold a formal ISO27001 certification.
Aarhus University has a framework data processing agreement with SDU that allows for researchers to store and process sensitive data in DeiC Interactive HPC. This means that researchers at Aarhus University can use DeiC Interactive HPC for personal data (confidential and sensitive).
The following are the minimum requirements for all services used for personal data:
- When using DeiC Interactive HPC the researcher must make a risk assessment of the specific data (GDPR requirement).
- In addition, DeIC Interactive HPC's terms and conditions must be accepted and thereby also DeIC Interactive HPC's terms of use and data processing terms for the specific project. This happens when you use DeIC Interactive HPC for the first time. Pressing “I agree/accept/etc.” in DeIC Interactive HPC is the equivalent of signing an agreement for use of service. Signatories at Aarhus University are the Heads of Department, and it is therefore necessary that the researcher, prior to accepting anything on the website, is given the approval and mandate by its Head of Department to accept the terms and conditions for the data in question.
If the researcher – based on the risk assessment of the specific data – deems that additional instructions are to be provided for SDU, it is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure that these instructions are given to SDU.