Centre Review 30 September 2003

Centre Manager’s ReportDr Anna Kenway

Report Structure

EventsEvents held in the 2nd year.StatisticsVisitor Programme

WebChanges in the last yearStatistics of usageSupporting the Community

Staff, Buildings & Finance

Events held in the 2nd Year(from 1 Aug 2002 to 31 Jul 2003)

We have had 86 events: (Year 1 figures in brackets)

11 project meetings ( 4)11 research meetings ( 7)25 workshops (17 + 1) 2 schools (0)15 training sessions (8)12 outreach events (3)5 international meetings (1)5 e-Science management meetings (7)

(though the definitions are fuzzy!)

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UK Support

NeSC Registered Users

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NeSC Acceptances (people-events)

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Is our International profile changing?

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Industrial Involvement

194 registered users from 97 companies133 different delegates have attended events (169 event registrations) from 64 companies including not only

IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Hewlett-Packard

but also …Apple, Astra Zeneca, BAE, Cisco, Honeywell, Motorola, Organon, Pfizer, Siemens

Future EventsToo many to list (in the Aug 31 report)27 already in an advanced stage of planningThrough to June 2004Including…

Training on GT3, Condor, OGSI & .NETMiron Livny public lectureCommitted to supporting WWW conference in 2005

See www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/Suggestions are always welcome.

Visiting ResearchersDavid Maier Oregon Health & Science University, USA Jun/Jul- 02

Greg Riccardi Florida State University, USA Jun/Oct-02

Chip Watson Jefferson Lab, USA Aug/02

Dave Richards Jefferson Lab, USA Sep/02

Dave Abel CSIRO, Australia Sep/02

Roy Williams Caltech, USA Oct/02

Steve Tuecke ANL, USA Jan/03

Herb Budd IBM Life Sciences Mar/03

Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Apr/03

Richard Thomas The University of Western Australia Apr/03

Stephen Hall Lancaster University May/03

Jim Gray Microsoft Research Jun/03

Alex Szalay Johns Hopkins University, USA Jun/Jul 03

Roy Williams California Institute of Technology Jun/03

Greg Riccardi Florida State University Jul/03

Arthur Nicewick Center for Advanced Technologies, Virginia USA Aug/03

Steve Tuecke Argonne National Laboratories Aug/03

Peter Lamb CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Aug/Sep-03

Beth Plale Indiana University Aug/Sep-03

… and of course

Richard Baldock (MRC)Bob Mann (IfA)

… who have been 50% on secondment on the visiting researchers’ programme.

All visitors are asked to produce a report and these will

appear in the next annual report (in progress).Future Visitors:

Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, October 03Rob Edwards, Jefferson Lab, Spring 04Engaging with SAB to generate more visitors

Conclusions

We have consolidated our year 1 activities (workshops, research)as well as expanding into other areas (training, international) and have achieved a steady state for this level of staffing.We have a booking for 2005 (and 2009) already – it is important to take a long-term view.Until now we have largely been responsive to requests for events, but we are implementing formal evaluation methods and we will become selective.

Website

Now 3 Gigabytes in size.Moved to our own servers on May 28, 2003Some redesign of appearance in the last few monthsConstant development and improvement of structure as our role develops

Basic Statistics 1

Since going ‘live’ in 2001 (figures in last week to 29 September)> 2 million successful requests (‘hits’) transferring 100 gigabytes of dataAverage hits per day 2847 (4954)Distinct files served 17,016 (2546)… to 65,175 (2564) distinct hostsAverage data transferred per day 140 MB (373 MB)

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Web Hits - Domain

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9% .ac.uk

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.ibm.com

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ed.ac.uk

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btopenworld.com

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Web Volume - Directory(after move to NeSC servers)

48%

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Other

Web Volume - File type

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.pdf [Adobe Acrobat]

.ppt [Powerpoint]

.cfm [Cold Fusion]

.gif [GIF graphics]

.htm(l) [Hypertext]

.jpg [JPEG graphics]

Other

Supporting the Communityhttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/resources/

SIGse-Science Data mining (Bob Mann)e-Science Project Management (Tony Linde)e-Science Visualisation (Ken Brodlie)

NeSCForgeQCDGrid (ILDG)Astrogrid (under consideration)

Early days for statistics – we will implement a measuring method.

Web Conclusions

51% of our requests are from the .uk domain18% from ‘commercial’Almost 90% of requests are for .pdf and .ppt files i.e. talks and presentations

Next Steps Implement a mirror at AN Other site (urgent)Improve visibility of Research area(Funded) indexed UK e-Science bibliography

Staff

Relatively stable after a small expansion in January 2003. New posts in the last year were:

Dave Berry and Richard SinnottReceptionist (Jennifer Hurst) at eSI

University of Edinburgh extended contracts of key fixed-term staff to July 2006. University of Glasgow position still being discussed.Staff appraisal has been implemented, and the first round is nearly complete.The training manager (‘JISC post’) interviews were held last Friday and we are about to appoint.

Buildings

eSI: Exclusive use of building from August 2002.eSI: Training room for 20 implemented in December 2002.UoE: Expanded to the basement of Old College in February 2003.UoG: Opening of the e-Science Hub in September 2003, including offices and further training space.We have filled all available space – again. Discussions for further space expansion are under way .

FinancesBudget Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Balance

eSIStaff 134.0 107.1 178.8 192.8 -344.7

Overheads 61.6 49.3 82.2 88.7 -158.6Programme Costs 709.2 131.2 223.6 137.4 217.0Resident Scientist 450.0 5.0 50.6 50.0 344.4

Infrastructure 124.2 63.2 133.0 0.0 -72.1Advisory Board 21.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 14.0

1500.0 355.7 668.4 475.9 0.0Infrastructure

Staff 522.2 144.1 166.8 177.1 34.1Overhead 240.2 66.3 76.7 81.5 15.7

Equipment 19.6 52.0 2.0 0.0 -34.4Travel 58.2 47.0 28.0 0.0 -16.8Total 840.2 309.5 273.6 258.6 -1.4

AccessGridEquipment 117.5 135.5 0.3 0.0 -18.3

Addendum 1MC 37.3 12.4 2.1 22.8 0.0

MC Overhead 17.2 5.7 1.0 10.5 0.0Total 54.5 18.2 3.0 33.3 0.0

Total 2512.2 818.8 945.3 767.8 -19.7

(£k)

ProjectedActuals

Finance

NeSC core is projected to balance to 0 within 1k at end of Year 3.Access Grid budget (3 built) is overspent by 17k.eSI projections show that in the final year we will have available for expenditure:

137k for the events programme – this will be enough. The year 2 high level of expenditure was incurred in outsourcing training.50k for the visitors’ programme – the same as in year 2.

Finances continued…

How we are keeping eSI costs down:We have just completed a competitive tender process for the provision of catering (a large component of eSI expenditure ~ 50 k per annum), as well as self-service coffee machines.The use of overtime and temp staff (in lieu of hiring additional staff) in high volume periods.All purchasing is done through the Universities’ negotiated contracts.

Administrative Support for the Core Programme

Grants managed:GridNeteSTORM, eSTORM2

All Hands Meeting:Paper submission and CD productionClerical support at the event

WebSecure websiteConsolidated image of UK e-Science programme

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