Joining the Network

Once you have installed your Marble node on your server, it is time to connect it to other Marble nodes.

This will allow users of your node to discover data and services available on other nodes and will allow other users in the Marble community to make use of your node as well. By joining the network, you contribute to the Marble community and help make computational climate science more accessible and collaborative. Welcome!

Add your information to the registry

To join the network, you need to add your node’s information to the Marble Node Registry. This is a registry of all nodes in the network and is used by various tools and components of each Marble node to know how to pass information between nodes.

To add your node’s information, make a pull request to the Marble Node Registry with an updated node_registry.json file containing your node’s information.

To see which information should be included see the instructions here.

Note

Updating the node_registry.json file requires some knowledge on how to edit JSON files.