The Belfast e-Science Centre offers a hosting-on-demand service within the
NGS in support of UK Academic users--the service is used extensively by
BeSC's commercial partners but BeSC are keen to have more Academic users.
The service enables a remote user to deploy software into servers within
the BeSC domain and to manage these deployed services remotely. If
you have an interest in using this service please contact Terry Harmer
for details.

The BeSC service hosting cloud can be accessed via a web UI and using
an API BeSC are developing (currently called libcloud); a Europar 09
paper on libcloud is available on our website.
The API is intended to provide a provider neutral interface to remote resources such
as those provided by Amazon, Flexiscale etc and the BeSC hosting cloud;
plugins for all of these providers are part of the library.  If you have
an interest in using this library in your development and/or helping its
development please contact Terry Harmer.