centre review dr anna kenway centre manager 11 october 2004
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Centre Review
Dr Anna KenwayCentre Manager
11 October 2004
Report Structure
EventsEvent StatisticsVisitor Programme
WebWebsitesStatisticsSupporting the Community
Staff, Finance & Buildings
Report Structure
EventsEvent StatisticsVisitor Programme
WebWebsitesStatisticsSupporting the Community
Staff, Finance & Buildings
Summary Figures for first 3 Years
We have run just under 7 per month (up from just over 6 at last Review)
19,456 delegate days248 events8,329 delegates (many ‘repeats’ – see later slide)421 event days (in 750 working days)
Further statistics exclude GGF5, as we did not handle registration so cannot do a detailed analysis.
Events held in the 3rd Year(from 1 Aug 2003 to 31 Jul 2004)
We had 114 (86,48) events: (Year 2 & 1 figures in brackets)
7 project meetings ( 11, 4)8 research meetings ( 11, 7)34 workshops (25, 18) 2 schools (2, 0)18 training sessions (15, 8)26 outreach events (12, 3)6 international meetings (5,1)4 conferences (0,1)9 e-Science management meetings (5, 7)
Basic Event Statistics
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UK Support
NeSC Registered Users
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NeSC Acceptances (people-events)
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4289 people have registered in our database …
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Involvement in EGEE reflected in increase in EU participation
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Engagement with healthcare continues…
Industrial Involvement
293 registered users from 213 companies278 different delegates have attended events (350 event registrations) from 143 companies including not only
Apple, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM (UK,EU & USA), Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, Sun
but also …Astra Zeneca, BAE, BASF, Genemeds, Glaxo-SmithKline, Organon, Pepper’s Ghost Productions, Pfizer, Schlumberger, Siemens …
Future Events23 already in an advanced stage of planningThrough to July 2005Including…
Condor Week & WebservicesBBSRC Meeting, ILDG & DBiBDCommitted to supporting WWW conference in 2005
See:http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/
Exit evaluations
For general events we started collecting delegate responses in August 2003. (Always collected for training events.)Use two different evaluation sheets for general events, and training events.
General events22% response rate – on a scale of 5 (‘Excellent’) to 1 (‘Disappointing') the average score is 4.1.
Training events39% response rate – on a scale of 5 (‘Excellent’) to 1 (‘Poor’) the average score is 4.0About half of those who responded use our Internet Café or our WirelessLAN facilities
No change to the figures since April …
… because we can’t get the participants to fill in the questionnaires … there have been a few extra….but not as many as there should be.
‘Nought to complain’?
And we also get very positive ‘thank you’ letters from organisers.
Visiting Researchers
Past visitors can be seen at:http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.html
We have had 29 visitors in the first 3 years, 3 currently including our first visitor staying for one year: Dr Jennifer Schopf from Argonne.
… and Research Leaders
Richard Baldock (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh)Ewan Klein (Informatics, Edinburgh)Colin Perkins (Dept of Computer Science, Glasgow)
… who are on 50% secondment on the visiting researchers’ programme funded by both eSI and eDIKT.
Future Visitors:Beth Plale (return visitor in late October, working with the OGSA-DAI team)Andrew Moore, Carnegie MellonILDG Middleware Group (from JLab, Fermilab, Tsukuba)… new concept of support for ‘working’ workshops and group applications
Conclusions
We have had a very busy first three years.The initial momentum has been maintained and indeed, growth has continued – enabled by increased efficiency.The challenge for the next 2 years is to continue to expand the community while at the same time continuing to support the existing constituency – this on a budget that is reduced in real terms.
Report Structure
EventsEvent StatisticsVisitor Programme
WebWebsitesStatisticsSupporting the Community
Staff, Finance & Buildings
WebsitesWe now run three:
http://www.nesc.ac.ukhttp://www.allhands.org.ukhttp://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/
…and are implementing the Associates Network website for the DCC.
You can now see some basic web statistics at:http://www.nesc.ac.uk/resources/stats/
With more in the process of development:
NeSC Web site Statistics
Since going ‘live’ in 2001 to 8 Sep 2004> 4.5 million successful requests (‘hits’) transferring 273 gigabytes of data (4.8 GB in last week)
In last week:Average hits per day 8593Distinct files served 4642… to 3572 distinct hostsAverage data transferred per day (702 MB) (typical file size about 100 kB)
NeSC Website Statistics
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Web Hits – Domain(3 years)
41%
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Web Volume – Domain(3 years)
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Web Hits – Organisation(Feb 2004 – Jul 2004)
googlebot.com.
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Web Volume – Organisation (Feb 2004 – Jul 2004)
googlebot.com.
ed.ac.uk
nesc.ac.uk
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gla.ac.uk
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btopenworld.com
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Web Volume - Directory(Feb 2004 – July 2004)
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Other
Web Volume - File type(Feb 2004 – Jul 2004)
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Other
Other WebsitesEarly Days
All HandsJan to Sep 2004111,631 requests8.77 GB of data37.12 MB per dayActivity peaked in AugustAlmost entirely .pdf
EGEEJun to Sep 200423,164 requests2.27 GB of data67.0 MB per dayActivity steadyAlmost entirely .ppt
Supporting the Communityhttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/resources/
WikisDB2, Secure Flocking Condor Testbed
SIGse-Science Data mining (Bob Mann)e-Science Project Management (Tony Linde)e-Science Visualisation (Ken Brodlie)
NeSCForge – hostTrianaQCD GridXMLDiff… and 36 other projects
In development - Users forumWill be unveiled at BBSRC meeting in November 2004
Web Conclusions
45% of our requests are from the .uk domain with the vast majority in the .ac.uk24% from ‘commercial’ – but the growth is largely from googlebot and other indexing servicesAbout 90% of requests are for .pdf and .ppt files i.e. talks and presentations
Report Structure
EventsEvent StatisticsVisitor Programme
WebWebsitesStatisticsSupporting the Community
Staff, Finance & Buildings
Core Staff - changesProf Peter Clarke has been appointed to the Chair in e-Science.Philip Clarke and Bob Mann have joined as lecturers in e-Science.John Murison resigned as Training Manager & JISC Liaison in August 2004. After discussions with JISC this post is to be re-advertised as JISC e-Science Policy Advisor.Four trainers (funded from EGEE and eSTT) have been appointed – David Ferguson, Richard Hopkins, Mike Miniter and Guy Warner.After Mark Cavanagh’s departure, we have recruited two computing officers – Mohamed Abdi and Steve Thorn who are commencing in November. The second post is funded from ScotGrid & GridPP funding.Our book-keeper Jennifer Chan has moved on to a promoted permanent position in the University, and that post is under advertisement.We are about to appoint an outreach interface administrator with funding from DCC and EGEE, to support those activities.
It is difficult to retain staff on fixed term contracts. We recruit and train them … and then they move on.
Financing of Staff Phase 1 Years 2001 -2004
Financing of Staff Phase 2 Years 2004 - 2006
Administrative Support for the Core Programme and Other
ProjectsGrants managed:
GridNeteSTORM, eSTORM2
All Hands Meeting:Paper submission and CD productionClerical support at the eventServing on the committee
Web:Secure website
Digital Curation Centre:Associates NetworkThe Official Opening
FinancesStatement as of July 31, 2004
(£ K) Budget Expenditure Balance Budget Expenditure Balance Budget Expenditure Balance BudgetCom m itted
Expenditure Balance
eSIStaff 42.1 107.1 -64.9 44.7 178.8 -134.1 47.2 182.0 -134.8 134.0 467.9 -333.9
Overheads 19.4 49.3 -29.9 20.5 82.2 -61.7 21.7 83.7 -62.0 61.6 215.2 -153.6Programme Costs 236.4 131.2 105.2 236.4 223.6 12.8 236.4 160.8 75.6 709.2 515.6 193.6Resident Scientist 150.0 5.0 145.0 150.0 50.6 99.4 150.0 49.5 100.5 450.0 105.2 344.8
Infrastructure 124.2 63.2 61.0 0.0 133.0 -133.0 0.0 -6.4 6.4 124.2 189.9 -65.7Advisory Board 7.0 0.0 7.0 7.0 0.0 7.0 7.0 0.0 7.0 21.0 0.0 21.0
579.1 355.7 223.4 458.6 668.4 -209.8 462.3 469.7 -7.4 1500.0 1493.7 6.3
InfrastructureStaff 164.2 144.1 20.1 174.1 166.8 7.2 183.9 154.0 29.9 522.2 465.0 57.2
Overhead 75.5 66.3 9.2 80.1 76.7 3.3 84.6 70.8 13.8 240.2 213.9 26.3Equipment 19.7 52.0 -32.4 0.0 2.0 -2.0 0.0 3.0 -3.0 19.6 56.9 -37.3
Travel 19.4 47.0 -27.6 19.4 28.0 -8.6 19.4 18.8 0.6 58.2 93.9 -35.7Total 278.8 309.5 -30.7 273.5 273.6 0.0 287.9 246.6 41.3 840.2 829.7 10.5
AccessGrid 117.5 135.5 -18.0 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 117.5 136.1 -18.6
Addendum 1MC 11.7 12.4 -0.7 12.4 2.1 10.4 13.1 22.8 -9.7 37.3 37.3 0.0
MC Overhead 5.4 5.7 -0.3 5.7 1.0 4.8 6.0 10.5 -4.5 17.2 17.2 0.0Total 17.1 18.2 -1.0 18.2 3.0 15.1 19.2 33.3 -14.1 54.5 54.5 0.0
Total 992.5 818.8 173.7 750.3 945.3 -195.0 769.4 749.6 19.5 2512.2 2513.7 -1.5
Actuals ProjectedTotalYear 1 Year 2 Year 3
Finances – Value Added
University of Edinburgh £ 9.80 MUniversity of Glasgow £ 1.92 MIBM £ 1.06 MSHEFC £ 2.28 MEGEE £ 1.03 M
TOTAL £16.09 M
This additional support includes posts, buildings, machines, refurbishment (including the Advanced Computing Facility in Edinburgh).
Buildings
We have filled all available space.Larger offices currently occupied by 2 staff will shortly be occupied by 3.
Lack of space is about to limit our ability to expand and host visitors.
Finish