The Pioneer Consortium

The PIONIER Consortium is an organization whose goal is to create and develop the Polish academic computer network PIONIER with high throughput, capable of connecting computing centers scattered throughout Poland to process large amounts of data and to provide participating academic centers with fast communication with foreign scientific and commercial networks.

MAN-HA

The aim of the MAN-HA project is to integrate selected services available in the PIONIER network, and to develop new services with the following characteristics: increased reliability and security, easy access, support for federation mechanisms, work in a cloud environment. The MAN-HA project is implemented by MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) and KDM (High Performance Computing) units, and the results are available for universities, R&D units, institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as students, business entities conducting research, and the ICT society.

The Pioneer Network has created a public cloud with free services that can be used by students and researchers. As part of these services, users have remote access to a wide range of applications and the ability to create and run virtual machines.

Pioneer Cloud

Access to the Pionier Cloud platform (which is an implementation of the MAN-HA project) is via https://cloud.pionier.net.pl. During registration, you need to:

in the first step select the city Poznań.
in the field Uczelnia/jednostka select Adam Mickiewicz University.
Use e-mail in domain `@st.amu.edu.pl' to register.
in the Dodatkowe informacje field, check the student box.

Pionier Cloud Services

Pioner Cloud offers acces to:

Virtual machines
Apps in cloud
Databases SQL
Microsoft Office 365

Note: The Pioneer Cloud service is not provided by WMI Computer Labs. Any problems with this service should be reported directly to the platform by selecting the Claims option in the Menu.

Machines

After activating the account (it takes from a few hours to a few days) we can log on to the platform. In the Services tab we can select Virtual Machines in the Menu, where we can create and run a virtual machine with the desired parameters.

Cloud users get the opportunity to set up virtual machines running in high availability mode. Application and virtual machine users get the ability to copy their files to virtual machines directly from their computer. .

Access to machines

Windows -> Linux (SSH)

Connecting to a machine via SSH (terminal) - PuTTY
Transfer files to the machine - WinSCP, FileZilla

Linux -> Linux (SSH)

ssh <remote_address> - connct to te machine
scp - copy files to the machine

Windows -> Windows (via RDP)

key Windows + R
search phrase mstsc
specify the machine and user address in the form <remote_address>\<user>

Linux -> Windows (via RDP)

download package called remmina
specify the machine and user address in the form <remote_address>\<user>