Dirac provides a complete solution for distributed computing systems offering workload and data management services with a special emphasis on large scale operations

The code development follows a carefully crafted programming-testing-release-deployment cycle. The DIRAC distribution includes all the necessary packages for running a full set of services.

DIRAC is a open source project with the code repository and documentation publicly available. It has got controbutions from dozens of developers from all over the world.

DIRAC is actively used by a large number of small and large scientific communities. DIRAC services are provided by several large scale grid infrastructures.

DIRAC development is driven by the needs of scientific communities. Users and developers are working in a close contact and have regular mettings, hackathons, tutorials and other events.

The DIRAC Consortium unites five world-class scientific institutions working together to develop and promote the DIRAC software.