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Below you will find the most important information needednecessary to start using PLGrid Infrastructure. ...
PLGrid is a nationwide IT infrastructure dedicated to scientists. We provide services and resources from a federation of top 5 Polish 5 Polish supercomputer centers, located in Kraków, Warszawa, Poznań, Gdańsk and Wrocłłw . PLGrid offer includes : 3,5 more than 2 PetaFlops of computing resources and more than storage spaces exceeding 20 PetaBytes of storage.
Users can use PLGrid resources free of charge. Their size is to be decided by our experts, reviewing Your application(s).
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To get access to PLGrid resources you , You have to be affiliated with a Polish scientific institution or cooperate with a Polish scientist. |
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Only a few simple steps are needed to create an Your account, which allows you to get access to all PLGrid services (via the web platform - Portal PLGrid).
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Go to https://portal.plgrid.pl/ to create your Your account. Fill in the registration form with all required information. Your login must start with "plg".
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You are allowed to have only one account! |
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Your affiliation
Affiliation with in a Polish scientific institution is a mandatory requirement to get access to PLGrid resources.
You have to either be an employee of a Polish scientific institution or cooperate with one within a Polish scientific institution. If you You are an employee, provide your Your affiliation information. Otherwise, provide your Your Supervisor's affiliation informationdata. They Supervisor will have to confirm the collaboration with you You before you can get access.
After your Your affiliation is confirmed you , You will gain access to resources such as: computing or storage resources, cloud platform, software for scientists, project management tools, e-learning tools and Helpdesk platform - — all of it in one account!
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PLGrid Pilot grant
Resource grant Grant is an agreement between a user User and the PLGrid Infrastructure. Such agreement contains specification of resources allocated. Upon affiliation confirmation you can easily receive a trial grant. It consists of 1000 normalized Once your affiliation is confirmed, You can easily and immediately obtain a Pilot grant .
If your computing needs are not large or You want to try out how the Infrastructure works, just apply for PLGrid Pilot grant. It consists of 1000 CPU hours and 10 GB of storage for one year per one supercomputer center. If you You need more resources you , You can also apply for aproper Proper grant.
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If you You need more resources than offered in trial Pilot grant, follow the next three steps. |
Create a workgroup
A workgroup allows a user User or a group of users Users to negotiate resources with PLGrid supercomputer centers. Cooperating users can share resources within a workgroup.
Get a certificate
Certificate confirms user's identity within PLGrid Infrastructure. It allows to access some of PLGrid services without requiring user's login and password. Some applications or tools require a certificate.To have full access to PLGrid resources – e.g., to use them via middleware – You need to obtain a certificate. It is a special file, identifying the User within the Infrastructure. If You wish to log in without having to enter a password, register Your certificate in the browser.
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PLGrid Proper grant
Proper grant is dedicated to users who the Users that need more resources than provided by a trial grant. Pilot grant. It is allocated to workgroups only.
Only the Team Manager is authorized to apply for and account the Proper grant. Therefore, even if You are working on Your own, You will need to set up a one-man workgroup beforehand. Once the grant is active, it can be used by all workgroup members. Requesting for a Proper grant is performed, like the other procedures, in the User Panel in the PLGrid PortalIn order to receive a proper grant user must create a workgroup (or be added to a workgroup with a leader role). Workgroup may consist of one user only, it may also consist of more collaborating users. Users who belong to the workgroup share its grants.
Only a workgroup leader Manager is allowed to negotiate the grant resources. The leader is also responsible for reporting grant results in form of reports and publications resulting from the grant (which have to contain PLGrid acknowledgements).
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