How to join…

ShareGrid is a Community of small Laboratories sharing their resources and the users of the various laboratories are, at the end, the final users of the resources of ShareGrid.

To join the Community you must be a Laboratory, i.e. responsible for a Laboratory. If you are a single user you should be supported by one of the participating laboratories.

But, to facilitate the participation of single users, TOP-IX, while providing some dedicated computational resources -the basic seed of our P2P grid-, accepts single users as users of TOP-IX ShareGrid peer. To do so you must configure your “MyGrid” client to view the TOP-IX peer. Alternatively and in an easier way you can use the OG3 Web Portal, that acts as a GUI to TOP-IX computational laboratory. In such case your starting point to use the whole grid will be supported by TOP-IX

If you are responsible for a Laboratory supporting many research projects from different users and you would like to increase the computational power of your laboratory sharing the computer of ShareGrid Community, you are a Contributor. You will have to provide a document describing your laboratory and in particular

  1. the number of shareable machines;
  2. some HW/SW characteristics like: processor type, amount of RAM and disk space and OS type;
  3. how the machines are used: time periods of (un)availability to computational purposes;
  4. network access: how the laboratory access Internet and the value of the bandwidth.

Please click the Contributors… button and follow the directions.

If you are a simple user without any computing resources, you will become a User of TOP-IX resources. You will have to fill in a form where you describe the main characteristics of the Application you would like to to run on the grid. Please click the Users… button and follow the directions.

If you have not yet made up your mind and need to read something more, please click Why joining… button.

At last, if you still curious about ShareGrid and would like to leave a message, please click More about ShareGrid… button.

In any cases you have to provide some information about you like name, organization, web site, etc. As soon as we get your requests we will get in contact with you.

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