Westminster Service Inclusions

1. The following grid middleware and related software for the support of the UK research community is installed:
   • PreWS and WS components of the Globus Toolkit from the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT 1.8.1) release with gLite/VOMS extensions, including GRAM2, GRAM4, GridFTP, RFT, GT4 MDS, GSIssh and GRIS reporting to the central BDII.
   • Maui/Torque job manager
   • RUS client for reporting usage accounting statistics
   • Storage Resource Broker (SRB) client
   • Scripts supporting the Uniform Execution Environment (UEE)
   • Gridmapfile populated from the central NGS VOMS server using Westminster's GridMapGen program to create one gridmapfile for PreWS and WS components
   • GEMLCA application repository
   • PGRADE portal
2. The following software for developing and running programs is available:
   • AMD Core Math Library
   • openmpi message passing library
   • Java
   • GNU compiler suite (including gcc and gfortran)
3. The following applications packages are available:
   • R
   • AUTODOCK
   • AUTOGRID
   • AMBER
   • FFTW
   • Blender
   • MGL Tools
4. Digital certificates management
5. Provision of usernames
6. Provision of disk space for users' files and backup of users' files.
7. Management of overall disk space
8. Nagios is used for tracking faults and email alerts to system administrators.
9. Usage accounting records are uploaded to the NGS RUS service.
10. Batch job control
11. Specialist advice
12. Systems support

For a complete list of service inclusions, see the published SLD