Belfast e-Science is sited within the Queen's University of Belfast and was established as part of the UK e-Science Programme. BeSC has focused on both Academic and Commercial applications of grid and next generation web services.
BeSC's technical resources consist of more than 60 computers sited in 2 locations in Belfast, 1 location in London and in a commercial BT data centre. BeSC has a dedicated 1 Gigabit Janet connection to provide high-speed access to these resources.
The BeSC technical resources are designed to be a hosting environment for grid and web services and together these resources provide a wide area test bed for network-centric service-based applications.
The BeSC Service Level Definition
The BeSC technical focus is on the issues necessary for the secure and robust deployment, hosting, monitoring and dynamic update of grid/web services for large-scale, network centric infrastructures.
The BeSC technical offering reflect this technical focus.
A collection of GridSAM instances that manage job submission to NGS compute nodes offered by NGS core , partner and affilate sites.
A dynamic on demand service hosting capability that permits users to upload services to be hosted on BeSC resources.
