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ELIXIR Virtual Organisation

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Introduction

This Virtual Organisation (VO) 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 backbone of the ELIXIR Compute Platform and federates cloud compute and storage resources from ELIXIR and EGI providers.

The VO is currently open for the application piloting activities of the ELIXIR Competence Centre of the EGI-Engage H2020 project. Further information about the Competence Centre is available at https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/CC-ELIXIR. Access to the VO resources is restricted to those working on the Competence Centre activities.

Acceptable use policy

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 regular members, to VO managers or to infrastructure providers). See these policies at http://www.egi.eu/about/policy/policies_procedures.html.

How to register

You can become member in the VO with an ELIXIR AAI account. (You can create an account here: https://www.elixir-europe.org/intranet.) Application link to the VO: https://perun.elixir-czech.cz/fed/registrar/?vo=vo.elixir-europe.org.

VO membership is managed by the PERUN service at CESNET, and controlled by the VO Managers. Membership is currently restricted to members and partners of the ELIXIR Competence Centre of EGI-Engage. Membership is expected to be opened up for other ELIXIR partners in 2017.

VO Manager

  • Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI)


Resources in the VO

  • CESNET cloud
  • GRNET cloud
  • EMBL-EBI cloud
  • Under discussion: CSC cloud; SURFsara cloud; CNRS cloud

How to join with new resources to the VO

The D6.10 deliverable of the EGI-Engage ELIXIR Competence Centre provides guidance for cloud providers on how to federate their site into the Virtual Organisation: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2841. Fur further support email <cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu>.

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.