Appendix A: How to Contribute

• Buy nodes: You get priority access to nodes you buy, while being able to draw on the aggregate computational power of the cluster as a whole.
• Buy networking hardware: If your research requires high-speed networking, like gigabit ethernet or Myrinet, you can purchase the appropriate hardware, which PCN will install and maintain on your systems.
• Buy Storage: If your research requires large amounts of data storage, inexpensive disk modules can be easily added to the departments' storage to provide hundreds of gigabytes of storage.
• If you wish to contribute to the cluster in any form, please don't hesitate to contact PCN.

Access to the cluster is available for researchers who have not contributed hardware, but is subject to availability of compute resources.