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The DIRAC interware is a complete Grid solution for one,
or more than one community of users that need to exploit distributed heterogeneous resources.

DIRAC forms a layer between a community and various compute resources to allow optimized, transparent and reliable usage.
The types of resources that DIRAC can handle include:

* *Computing* Resources, including Grids, Clouds, HPCs and Batch systems
* *Storage* Resources
* *Catalog* Resources

Many communities use DIRAC, the oldest and most experienced being the `LHCb <http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/>`_ collaboration.
Other communities include, but are not limited to, `Belle2 <https://www.belle2.org/>`_, `ILC <http://www.linearcollider.org/ILC>`_,
and `CTA <https://www.cta-observatory.org/>`_

DIRAC source code is open source (GPLv3), written in `python <https://docs.python.org/>`_,
and hosted on `github <https://github.com/DIRACGrid>`_.

An alternative description of the DIRAC system can be found in this `presentation <https://indico.cern.ch/event/505613/contributions/2227928/>`_


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