Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 27 May 2005

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Centre ReviewDr Anna KenwayCentre Manager27
May 2005
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Report Structure

• Events
• Event Statistics
• Visitor Programme
• Web
• Website 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 to end of April 2005(45 months)

• We have run 7.2 per month
• (up from just under 7 at last Review - 8.5/month
  in last 9 months)
• 23,976 delegate days (19,456)
• 325 events (248)
• 10,421 delegates (8,329)
• 559 event days (in ? 938 working days)

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Events held in the 4th Year to date(from 1 Aug
2004 to 30 April 2005)

• We had 77 (114) events
• (Year 3 figures in brackets)
• 15 project meetings ( 7)
• 1 research meeting ( 8)
• 23 workshops (34)
• 0 schools (2)
• 20 training sessions (18)
• 9 outreach events (26)
• 1 international meeting (6)
• 5 conferences (4)
• 3 e-Science management meetings (9)

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Basic Event Statisticssteady state - saturation
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Types of events(by volume of delegate days)
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Frequent Flyers
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UK Support
5368 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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Sector Involvement
Sector Number Registered in Database
Government 72
Government Laboratories 305
Healthcare 203
Higher Education 3732
Industry 442
Information Services 34
Professional Societies 18
Projects 34
Research Councils 94
Research Institutes 314

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Future Events

• 43 already in an advanced stage of planning
• Through to Feb 2006
• Including
• 13 conferences
• 10 workshops
• 12 training events
• on a wide range of technical and scientific
  issues
• See
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

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PPARC UK Postgraduate School

• Held in early May
• Requested by PPARC but others can attend
• For students in their second year of their PhD
• The third time we have run this event
• A mixture of training, talks by students and
  seminars by practitioners as well as an evening
  invited speaker lecture this year by Prof Peter
  Higgs (How I became a Boson.)
• Students very enthusiastic with the exit
  evaluations largely rating every aspect as very
  good or excellent.

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Visiting Researchers
Feb 2005 Jason Novotny Max-Planck-Institut für
Gravitationsphysik (OGSA-DAI/GridSphere)  Nov
2004 Dr Andrew Moore Carnegie Mellon
University  (Large datasets/AstroGrid) Oct
2004 Dr Beth Plale Indiana University    (OGS
A-DAI) Dr Ying Chen Jefferson
Lab (ILDG)   Dr Eric Neilsen
Fermilab  (ILDG)  Timur Perelmutov
Fermilab (SRM/GridPP) Don Petravick
Fermilab (SRM/GridPP)   Aug 2004 Dr Seth Ruffins
California Institute of Technology  (Mouse
Atlas) Continuing Dr Jennifer Schopf
Argonne (OGSA-DAI )
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Current Visitors

• Prof Kai Nan Computer Network Information Center,
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• Dr Yongwei Wu Tsinghua University, Beijing
• (OGSA-DAI and future collaborative work)

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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 host
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk
• http//www.allhands.org.uk
• http//www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/
• http//forum.dcc.ac.uk/registration/
• We have also registered
• http//www.iecnet.org.uk

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NeSC Web site Statistics(no bots or crawlers)

• From 1 August 2004 (Previous 3 years)
• gt 1.9 million successful requests (hits)
  transferring 266 gigabytes of data (4.27 M
  transferring 228 GB)
• In last week
• Average hits per day 9331 (8593)
• Distinct files served 7793 (4642)
• Average data transferred per day 1.79 GB (702 MB)

Conclusion Less browsing more file downloads
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NeSC Website Statistics
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NeSC Technical Report Downloads
http//www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html
96.5 of downloads are either .pdf or Power Point
documents
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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

• A further 2 trainers/software developers (funded
  from EGEE and eSTT) have been appointed Dr Sara
  Collins and Dr Boon Low ...
• We are looking for a new book-keeper again.
• We have appointed an outreach interface
  administrator Alison McCall with funding from DCC
  and EGEE, to support those activities.
• We have appointed a new receptionist on a short
  term contract Yvonne Anderson

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Financing of Staff Phase 2

• Years 2004 - 2006

Fewer staff but delivering the same high quality
and level of service to the UK e-Science
community
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Administrative Support for the Core Programme and
Other Projects

• Grants managed
• GridNet, (GridNet2)
• eSTORM, eSTORM2
• All Hands Meeting
• Paper submission, review process and CD
  production
• Clerical support at the event
• Serving on the committee
• Web
• Secure website, email lists and archive
• Digital Curation Centre
• Associates Network Forum
• The Official Opening

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Finances
eSI Edinburgh Glasgow  (To end of January 2005)      (To end of January 2005)      (To end of January 2005)    
      Project Total Project Total Budget
  Total Total Project Total Project Total Budget
Equipment -197 0 -197 11,210  
Events 25,062 0 25,062 270,000 9.3
Maintenance 1,102 0 1,102 8,568 12.9
Overheads 35,890 3,246 39,135 185,960 21.0
Staff 78,021 7,056 85,077 404,262 21.0
Visitors 18,463 0 18,463 120,000 15.4
Total 158,340 10,301 168,641 1,000,000  
             
NeSC Core            
      Project Total Project Total Budget
  Total Total Project Total Project Total Budget
Maintenance 0 265 265 400 66
Overheads 22,062 9,847 31,908 125,256 25
Staff 47,960 21,406 69,366 272,296 25
Travel 3,110 1,476 4,586 2,048 224
Total 73,131 32,995 106,126 400,000  
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Finances Value Added

• University of Edinburgh 9.84 M
• University of Glasgow 1.92 M
• IBM 1.06 M
• SHEFC 2.28 M
• EGEE 1.03 M
• TOTAL 16.13 M

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