The aim of Grid-Ireland is to enable communities of users, for example, astrophysicists, geneticists or linguists, to construct virtual organizations above Grid-Ireland. The guiding principle is that there may be many virtual organizations, but there only needs to be one grid layer. The benefit is a research platform for scientists and an object of research for computer scientists, and a natural symbiosis between the two.

Grid-Ireland involvement in the LHC: The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre is involved in data storage and processing for the Atlas and LHCb experiments. See press coverage of the switch-on here.

The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre is a partner in the e-INIS project to develop a national e-Infrastructure for Ireland. e-INIS is funded by HEA under PRTLI cycle 4 as part of the National Development Plan and with support from EU structural funds.

To learn more about grid computing you can visit the Grid Café at CERN. Find out how grid computing works, what grid computing can do, what it could mean for you, and much more. For information on applying Grid technology to business visit Gridipedia.

Contact information

• help@grid.ie: for all help requests

Other contacts:

• grid-ireland-mgr@cs.tcd.ie: for general information requests
• ca@grid.ie: for matters related to certificates or the certificate authority
• grid-ireland-vomgr@cs.tcd.ie: for matters related to Grid-Ireland virtual organisations (VOs)