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Modern e-infrastructures provide huge computational power and storage capacities to their users. While increasing capacity and progressing with technological advancement is gradually ceasing to be a problem, making these infrastructures easy-to-use for their users is still a challenge. The barrier the users have to overcome to use an e-infrastructure in their scientific experiments is still high – it is almost impossible to do this without prior training on the infrastructure usage and without knowledge of UNIX-like systems. At the same time, the user is offered more and more easy to use tools in many other fields. The increasing gap between the users’ skills and competence required to effectively use the e-infrastructure services needs to be bridged with a new layer of services which are specific to a given domain of science and more easy to use by researchers. The paper introduces the foundations of the PL-Grid Infrastructure, the objectives of the PLGrid Plus project and shortly describes several sample domain-specific services and tools, developed and deployed in the Polish computational e-infrastructure to overcome the aforementioned problems.
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Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K., Dutka, Ł., Szepieniec, T., Sterzel, M., Pająk, R. (2014). Domain-Specific Services in Polish e-Infrastructure. In: Bubak, M., Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K. (eds) eScience on Distributed Computing Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10894-0_1
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