DIRAC has started a collaboration with EGI.eu to offer an open service to the european e-Infrastructure. This service will be pilot by several communities of different fields: Astrophysics, Life-Science, Engineering, etc. and will then be offered to others as single access point to all kind of distributed computing and storage resources in Europe and beyond.
The Life-Science communities, and other interested users and communities, are offered a dedicated Networking session with DIRAC 4 EGI initiative responsible team to analyze their use cases and requirements to join the initiative.
The aim is to performed a preliminary "Analysis of the use cases and requirements" from different communities to collaborate with them and provide open access to the e-Infrastructure through the DIRAC 4 EGI service.
For that purpose those willing to participate are asked to provide the following information (dirac-support@mailman.egi.eu):
Person: Name, e-mail, host institution
Use case: title, type (user, application, small(<10)/medium(<100)/large(>100) community), short description (500 char)
Current experience with distributed computing, DIRAC