Welcome to PLGrid Infrastructure!

Below you willcan find the most important information necessary to start using PLGrid Infrastructure. 

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PLGrid is a nationwide IT infrastructure dedicated to scientists. We provide services and resources from a federation of top 5 Polish supercomputer centers, located in Kraków, Warszawa, Poznań, Gdańsk and Wrocłłw Wrocław . PLGrid offer includes more than 2 PetaFlops of computing resources and storage spaces space exceeding 20 PetaBytes.

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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You have to either be an employee of a Polish scientific institution or cooperate with one within a Polish scientific institution. If You are an employee, provide Your affiliation information. Otherwise, provide Your Supervisor's affiliation data. Then, the Supervisor will have to confirm the collaboration with You before you can get access.

After Your affiliation is confirmed, 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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Grant is an agreement between a User and the PLGrid Infrastructure. Such agreement contains specification of resources allocated. Once your Your affiliation is confirmed, You can easily and immediately obtain a Pilot grant .

If your 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 need more resources, You can also apply for a Proper grant.

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A workgroup allows a User or a group of Users to negotiate resources with PLGrid supercomputer centers. Cooperating users Users can share resources within a workgroup.

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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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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 Portal.

Only a workgroup 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.

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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:

Before you start - watch the movie!

(For now only in Polish only)

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