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ELIXIR Virtual Organisation

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Introduction

This Virtual Organisation contributes to the ELIXIR effort of building a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine, agriculture, bioindustries and society. The Virtual Organisation constitutes the ELIXIR Compute Platform and federates resources and services (HTC and cloud) from within the ELIXIR and EGI communities.

The VO is operated jointly by the ELIXIR Competence Centre of the EGI-Engage H2020 project and the ELIXIR Excelerate Compute Platform. Further information about the Competence Centre is available at https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/CC-ELIXIR.

Acceptable use policy

<WORK IN PROGRESS> This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all members of the "vo.elixir-europe.org" Virtual Organisation, hereafter referred to as the VO, and the resources that members are able to access through the VO mechanism. Members of the EGI-Engage Competence Centre (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/CC-ELIXIR) owns and gives authority to this policy. The goal of the VO is to contribute to ELIXIR, the sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine, agriculture, bioindustries and society.

All VO members (users, managers, infrastructure providers) agree to be bound by the Acceptable Use Policy (https://documents.egi.eu/document/74) and to use the resources within the VO only in the furtherance of the stated goal of the VO. Other relevant EGI Policies and Procedures apply to certain VO member groups (to users, to VO managers or to infrastructure providers). See these policies at http://www.egi.eu/about/policy/policies_procedures.html.

How to register

VO membership is managed by the PERUN service at CESNET, and controlled by the VO Managers. The VO is under testing, so membership is currently restricted to members and partners of the ELIXIR Competence Centre of EGI-Engage. Please email cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu if you want to join the VO. Registration link is at https://perun.cesnet.cz/edugain/registrar/?vo=vo.elixir-europe.org.

VO Managers

Operational contact towards EGI:

  • Gergely Sipos (EGI)

VO Membership management:

  • Steven Newhouse (EBI)
  • Rafael Jimenez (ELIXIR)

The VO managers can be contacted through the cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu e-mail list.

Guides for VO managers

VOMS information

Resources in the VO

To be filled in later.

How to join with new resources to the VO

To be filled in later.

Support

There is a generic e-mail list provided for any topic related to the VO (operations, user support, VO users, security): [cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu]. Please contact the VO through this e-mail address.