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Welcome to PLGrid Infrastructure!
Below you willcan find the most important information needednecessary to start using PLGrid Infrastructure.
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Grants in PLGrid - changes since 2022.11.1
Basic information
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 Wrocław. PLGrid offer includes : 3,5 more than 2 PetaFlops of computing resources and more than storage space 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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How to get access?
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).
Register
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 information. They data. Then, the 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 get 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 simply 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.
More about trial grantPilot grants
Activate a service
PLGrid Infrastructure provides a variety of tools and services for your computational and storage needs. You can find them in our repository of services via Service Catalogue (in Polish: Katalog Aplikacji i Usług).
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For some Users this is the last step. If you If 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 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 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 Manager is also responsible for reporting grant results in the form of reports and publications resulting from the grant (which have to contain PLGrid acknowledgements).
Grants explained in four steps:
1. Go to "GRANTYGrants" in Portal menu, fill out the form and specify your Your requirements. You will be required to declare expected grant results, such as publications or posters.
2. Your request might need a scientific review. Our experts analyze your will analyse Your previous grant's reports and the description of your Your current request.
3. Operations staff allocates resources to the grant.
4. Workgroup leader reports progress and results of grant usage.
More about proper grantProper grants
What's next?
Decide what of PLGrid's offer will be most useful to youYou. The Infrastructure offers a variety of tools for Linux and Windows users. You can perform computations, store your Your scientific data or use virtual machines. You may also gain access to domain-specific services from a wide range of science fields.
Our users Users get documentation and manuals at their disposal. In case of any difficulties we will help you with your problem You via our Helpdesk platform.
For less experienced users Users wanting to perform computations we recommend middleware with its supporting graphical tools (QCG or UNICORE). If you You are more advanced, you You can access clusters directly via SSH protocol.
If your Your research in within the PLGrid grant leads to publications, remember to add include the proper acknowledgements:
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