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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 `_ collaboration.
Other communities include, but are not limited to, `Belle2 `_, `ILC `_,
and `CTA `_
DIRAC source code is open source (GPLv3), written in `python `_,
and hosted on `github `_.
An alternative description of the DIRAC system can be found in this `presentation `_
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User Guide
including client installation
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Developer Guide
adding new functionality to DIRAC
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Administrator Guide
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