Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research

NGS at the University of Birmingham

Particle Physics Department

 

Introduction

The NGS VO will be supported and allocated a small percentage fair share in our scheduling system. When the queues are not full NGS users will be able to take advantage of the spare cycles.

Resources

NGS users can use two cluster in the Particle Physics Group. The BlueBear cluster managed by the University Information services will soon offer more resources to NGS. Scientific Linux 4 is the default operating system.

Middleware, compilers and other software

The glite middleware from the LCG project is installed.

Contact

Any queries regarding the NGS at the University of Birmingham, Particle Physics Dept. should be submitted by email to the NGS support desk: support@grid-support.ac.uk

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