Dirac

This page is about the DIRAC "interware", i.e. middleware (or, if you will, software which lets you do stuff), or specifically GridPP's deployment of it. For other things called "dirac" which may have led you to this page, please see the links at the bottom of this page.

For Users: The GridPP DIRAC server

• For very new users, please talk to your local sys admin :-S
• GridPP DIRAC users, please start here: Setting up a DIRAC client;
• GridPP DIRAC Portal;

Publications

• Bauer D, Fayer S, 2017, GridPP DIRAC: Supporting non-LHC VOs on LHC centric resources, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 898 052003 (Link)
• Bauer D, Colling D, Currie R, et al., 2015, The GridPP DIRAC project - DIRAC for non-LHC communities, 21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN:1742-6588 (Link)
• Bauer D, Colling D, Currie R, et al., 2015, The GridPP DIRAC project: Implementation of a multi-VO DIRAC service, 21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN:1742-6588 (Link)

Talks

• Bauer D, Fayer S, Martyniak J, DIRAC Workshop 2021 GridPP DIRAC Status
• Bauer D, Fayer S, DIRAC Workshop 2019 GridPP DIRAC Status
• Bauer D, Fayer S, DIRAC Workshop 2017 GridPP DIRAC Status
• Bauer D, Fayer S, CHEP 2016 Dirac: Supporting non-LHC VOs on LHC centric resources
• Bauer D, Fayer S, DIRAC Workshop 2016 GridPP DIRAC: first year of production

For Developers

• Maintaining the Imperial Dirac server
• Setting up DIRAC in development mode

DIRAC Project pages

• DIRAC documentation
• DIRAC Grid Wiki (for admins)
• Questions for the developers ? DIRAC Discussions
• DIRAC grid forum
• DIRAC bugs

GridPP DIRAC Development

This section is obsolete, but there might be the odd nugget of wisdom contained in these pages.

• Schematic of the dirac production server setup.
• Your own disposable dirac: dirac on a vm at cern
• Developing Dirac (The IC HEP dirac repo.)
• Setting up a dirac grid server at Imperial
• Testing a new dirac server
• Ganga with Dirac

Other useful info

• [1] Dictionary of definitions for useful terms and acronyms when dealing with DIRAC
• [2] A WIP guide for installing DiracServer when the automatic tools aren't being friendly

Other things called "dirac" in some form

• Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing is another STFC funded project, collaborating with GridPP.
• DImeson Relativistic Atom Complex - an experiment at CERN studying pionium decay (the "dimeson" is not a typo)