D4Science.org at EGI.eu

EGI.eu is a foundation responsible for the coordination and management of the EGI federation on behalf of its participants. In particular, it is responsible for the operation of the publicly funded European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).

Users of EGI are organised into Virtual Organisations (VOVirtual Organization;). A VOVirtual Organization; is a group of people that have similar focus in their work and have a common wish to share access to a subset of EGI resources. Membership of a VOVirtual Organization; (or a group within that VOVirtual Organization;) is how access is granted to those resources. A typical VOVirtual Organization; provides some base-level access to the resources for all VOVirtual Organization; members, with some members having elevated privileges.

In order for making it possible for users of the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative..org HDI to exploit resources and services offered by the EGI infrastructure the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative..org Virtual OrganizationA dynamic set of individuals or institutions defined around a set of resource-sharing rules and conditions. All these virtual organizations share some commonality among them, including common concerns and requirements, but may vary in size, scope, duration, sociology, and structure. has been created in the EGI operational context.