Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 11 October 2004

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Centre ReviewDr Anna KenwayCentre Manager11
October 2004
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Report Structure

• Events
• Event Statistics
• Visitor Programme
• Web
• Websites
• Statistics
• Supporting the Community
• Staff, Finance Buildings

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Report Structure

• Events
• Event Statistics
• Visitor Programme
• Web
• Websites
• Statistics
• Supporting the Community
• Staff, Finance Buildings

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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 days
• 248 events
• 8,329 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.

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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)

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Basic Event Statistics
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Types of events(by volume of delegate days)
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Frequent Flyers
MPA (37)
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UK Support
4289 people have registered in our database
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Attendance from different countries
Involvement in EGEE reflected in increase in EU
participation
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Attendance from different sectors
Engagement with healthcare continues
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Industrial Involvement

• 293 registered users from 213 companies
• 278 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, Peppers Ghost
  Productions, Pfizer, Schlumberger, Siemens

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Future Events

• 23 already in an advanced stage of planning
• Through to July 2005
• Including
• Condor Week Webservices
• BBSRC Meeting, ILDG DBiBD
• Committed to supporting WWW conference in 2005
• See
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

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Exit evaluations
No change to the figures since April because
we cant 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.

• 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 events
• 22 response rate on a scale of 5 (Excellent)
  to 1 (Disappointing') the average score is 4.1.
• Training events
• 39 response rate on a scale of 5 (Excellent)
  to 1 (Poor) the average score is 4.0
• About half of those who responded use our
  Internet Café or our WirelessLAN facilities

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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.

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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 Mellon
• ILDG Middleware Group (from JLab, Fermilab,
  Tsukuba)
• new concept of support for working workshops
  and group applications

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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.

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Report Structure

• Events
• Event Statistics
• Visitor Programme
• Web
• Websites
• Statistics
• Supporting the Community
• Staff, Finance Buildings

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Websites

• We now run three
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk
• http//www.allhands.org.uk
• http//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

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NeSC Web site Statistics

• Since going live in 2001 to 8 Sep 2004
• gt 4.5 million successful requests (hits)
  transferring 273 gigabytes of data (4.8 GB in
  last week)
• In last week
• Average hits per day 8593
• Distinct files served 4642
• to 3572 distinct hosts
• Average data transferred per day (702 MB)
  (typical file size about 100 kB)

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NeSC Website Statistics
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NeSC Technical Report Downloads
http//www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html
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Web Hits Domain(3 years)
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Web Volume Domain(3 years)
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Web Hits Organisation(Feb 2004 Jul 2004)
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Web Volume Organisation (Feb 2004 Jul 2004)
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Web Volume - Directory(Feb 2004 July 2004)
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Web Volume - File type(Feb 2004 Jul 2004)
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Other WebsitesEarly Days

• All Hands
• Jan to Sep 2004
• 111,631 requests
• 8.77 GB of data
• 37.12 MB per day
• Activity peaked in August
• Almost entirely .pdf

• EGEE
• Jun to Sep 2004
• 23,164 requests
• 2.27 GB of data
• 67.0 MB per day
• Activity steady
• Almost entirely .ppt

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Supporting the Communityhttp//www.nesc.ac.uk/res
ources/

• Wikis
• DB2, Secure Flocking Condor Testbed
• SIGs
• e-Science Data mining (Bob Mann)
• e-Science Project Management (Tony Linde)
• e-Science Visualisation (Ken Brodlie)
• NeSCForge host
• Triana
• QCD Grid
• XMLDiff
• and 36 other projects
• In development - Users forum
• Will be unveiled at BBSRC meeting in November
  2004

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Web Conclusions

• 45 of our requests are from the .uk domain with
  the vast majority in the .ac.uk
• 24 from commercial but the growth is largely
  from googlebot and other indexing services
• About 90 of requests are for .pdf and .ppt files
  i.e. talks and presentations

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Report Structure

• Events
• Event Statistics
• Visitor Programme
• Web
• Websites
• Statistics
• Supporting the Community
• Staff, Finance Buildings

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Core Staff - changes

• Prof 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 Cavanaghs 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.
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Financing of Staff Phase 1

• Years 2001 -2004

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Financing of Staff Phase 2

• Years 2004 - 2006

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Administrative Support for the Core Programme and
Other Projects

• Grants managed
• GridNet
• eSTORM, eSTORM2
• All Hands Meeting
• Paper submission and CD production
• Clerical support at the event
• Serving on the committee
• Web
• Secure website
• Digital Curation Centre
• Associates Network
• The Official Opening

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Finances
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Finances Value Added

• University of Edinburgh 9.80 M
• University of Glasgow 1.92 M
• IBM 1.06 M
• SHEFC 2.28 M
• EGEE 1.03 M
• TOTAL 16.09 M

This additional support includes posts,
buildings, machines, refurbishment (including the
Advanced Computing Facility in Edinburgh).
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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.
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• Finish