User Registration to BalticGrid VO

The BalticGrid project members apply for membership in BalticGrid VO in order to get access to the project's resources both computational and storage. Successful registration allows to run your application and use storage space on BalticGrid Project Infrastructure and in future even beyond it - in the European science grid build in EGEE project.

 

The reqistration to BalticGrid VO is carried out on-line via simple web form. The prerequisite for the procedure is:

• Obtain personal certificate. You get the certificate from Certification Authority in your country. The certificate is indispensible to be able to access resources that are located in different institutes running different administrative policies.
  
  

  Institution	Getting User Certificate
  IFJ PAN	Follow the on-line form. Your institution is "IFJ" in pop-down menu.
  Remaining institutes	Visit: BalticGrid CA web page

• Load personal certificate into browser. The certifcate should be imported into your web browser while accessing BalticGrid VO registration pages (see howto)
• Register to BalticGrid VO. Having your certificate loaded in the browser you may proceed to the BalticGrid VO User Registration Page
  
• On the left-hand menu click on "My requests" and then "Requesting a membership" and follow the guides
  
• Registration procedure. During the process of your registration you should receive
  
• an e-mail confirming reception of your request by the VO manager
  
• and after successful evaluation of your request you shall receive e-mail confirming acceptance of your application. 

From that moment on you are the BalticGrid VO member. You still shall wait around 6 hours for new membership information to propagate onto all grid sites. While finished you may have your own hands-on experience with grid using Grid Tutorial

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How to get access to Grid?
Each BalticGrid VO member accesses the BalticGrid infrastructure via so called "User Interface" (UI) machine.  The UI is a Linux machine with client-side software for working with grid installed. You can either use standalone UI machine (see table below) or install it on your PC using the on-line instruction

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Please note that UIs are installed in different administrative domains running specific access policies, so you should apply for access at your affiliated institute.

 

Institute	UI	Getting access
IFJ PAN	ares02.cyf-kr.edu.pl (IA-64, Scientific Linux)	Contact: Marcin Radecki, radecki AT agh.edu.pl
KTU	pupa.elen.ktu.lt (IA-32, Scientific Linux 3.x) [kopustas,alyva,astra,roze, tulpe,zibute].elen.ktu.lt (IA-32, Gnetoo + TAR_UI)	Contact: Kestutis Paulikas, kestas AT elen.ktu.lt +370 608 13574