Services
The NES provides the following free-to-use services to UK academic researchers:
- The UK e-Science Certification Authority, which provides digital certificates to identify UK Grid users.
- A web portal, the applications repository, which provides a graphical method for submitting jobs to the NES.
- A resource broker, which can determine the best site or cluster for a submitted job based on its requirements and the current workloads.
- The GSI-SSHTerm, a Java-based terminal used to give command-line access NES resources using GSI-enabled SSH.
- Oracle databases.
- The NES P-GRADE Portal, based on P-GRADE Portal technology, which enables the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows – composed of sequential and parallel jobs – on NES and EGI resources.
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