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Welcome in to PLGrid IfrastructureInfrastructure!

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

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Basic information

PLGrid is a nationwide IT infrastructure dedicated to scientists. We provide services and resources from federated polish a federation of top 5 Polish supercomputer centers, located in Kraków, WarszawaPoznań, 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

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with a Polish scientific institution or cooperate with a

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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 later 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 allow allowed to have only one account!

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Your affiliation 

Affiliation by Polish Scientific Institution in a Polish scientific institution is a mandatory requirement to get access to PLGrid resources.

You have to either be an employee in one to have access to PLGrid services. Otherwise you must provide information about your Supervisor’s affiliation. Your Supervisor must then confirm your identity and the scientific colaboration with you.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 get access to After your identity is confirmed you will gain access to the resources such as: computing or storage resources, cloud platform, software for scientists, project management tools, e-learning tools and Helpdesk platform -  — all of this it in one account!

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PLGrid Pilot grant

Resource Grant  is is an agreement between the a User and the PLGrid Infrastructure. This Such agreement also contains the specification of resources that you have applied for. Upon registration you will receive a trial period to determine your requirements. The trial period consists of 1000 normalized allocated. 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 computing one supercomputer center. If you require You need more resources you , You can also apply for aProper Resource Grantgrant.

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Activate a service

PLGrid Infrastructure provides a variety of tools and services for your computations computational and storage needs. You have access to can find them in our repository of services via Services Service Catalogue (in Polish: Katalog Aplikacji i Usług).

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For some users that is the last step. But if you need more resources than trial grant offers If You need more resources than offered in Pilot grant, follow the next three stepssteps

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Create a workgroup

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

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2. Get certificate

Certificate confirms user's identity within PLGrid Infrastructure. It allows you to use PLGrid services without requiring your login and password. Also some applications or tools require the certificate to access them.

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3. Get Resource Grant

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Get 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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Get a PLGrid Proper grant

Proper grant is dedicated to the Users that need more resources than provided by a 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 Portal.

Only a workgroup Manager is allowed to negotiate the grant resources. The 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).For user who needs more resources than provided by trial grant PLGrid Infrastructure dedicates a Proper Resource Grant". User must set up a workgroup, it is a mandatory requirement. Only workgroup represented by its manager is allow to negotiate the pool resources. The manager is also responsible for reporting results and publications reached while working with the grant. The work group does not have to be group of users. There can be only one person.

Grants explained in four steps:

1. Go Go to "GRANTYGrants" in Portal's menu, then fill out the form and specify your Your requirements. You must ensure there that some results, posters or publications are expectedwill be required to declare expected grant results, such as publications or posters.

2. Your request could might need a scientific recommendationreview. Our experts analyze your will analyse Your previous grant's reports and the description in your of Your current request.

3. Operation stuff Operations staff allocates resources to the grant.

4. Workgroup Manager leader reports progress and results of grant usage.

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What's next?

Decide how to use what of PLGrid's offer . You can schedule the tasks or store your data and files. will be most useful to You. The Infrastructure offers a variety of tools for Linux users and Windows users as well. There is also a possibility to get acces to domain specific services for . You can perform computations, store 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 have Users get documentation and manuals at their disposal. In case of any difficulties we recommend writing a ticket on will help You via our Helpdesk platform. 

For less experienced users we would like to recommend using middlewares for the computations. If you Users wanting to perform computations we recommend middleware with its supporting graphical tools (QCG or UNICORE). If You are more advanced, you You can access resources clusters directly via SSH protocol.

If your Your research in within the PLGrid grant lead leads to some publications, remember to add include the proper acknowledgements:
 

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"This research was supported in part by PLGrid Infrastructure".

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