Belfast e-Science (BeSC) is the group name for the R&D grants held by Professor Ron Perrott (Principal Investigator) and Dr Terry Harmer (co-Principal Investigator). The group evolved from the regional e-Science centre grants held by Ron Perrott and Terry Harmer. Belfast e-Science have been a leading group within the UK e-Science programme since 2002.

Belfast e-Science plays a significant regional, national and international role in disseminating knowledge and experience of multidisciplinary Research and Business enabled by e-Science technologies including Web Services, SOA and Cloud/Utility Computing. Under the leadership of Ron Perrott and Terry Harmer the Belfast e-Science group has developed a forward looking, novel and innovative view of e-Research with a unique portfolio of partners and projects.  Our core application areas include:

 

Media Service Clouds. Publication and distribution of digital media content. Next generation set to box technology. more

 

Cloud-based Risk Management service provision. Compliance and high-throughput trading environments. Quantitative Finance. more

 

Virtual Bioinformatics Laboratory. Collaborative discovery. Distributed large-scale data and application integration.

 

Universal management of cloud-based Compute and data. Automated Service deployment. Management integration.