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Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 27 May 2005

Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 27 May 2005. Report Structure. Events Event Statistics Visitor Programme Web Website Statistics Supporting the Community Staff, Finance & Buildings. Report Structure. Events Event Statistics Visitor Programme Web Websites Statistics

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Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 27 May 2005

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  1. Centre ReviewDr Anna KenwayCentre Manager27 May 2005

  2. Report Structure • Events • Event Statistics • Visitor Programme • Web • Website Statistics • Supporting the Community • Staff, Finance & Buildings

  3. Report Structure • Events • Event Statistics • Visitor Programme • Web • Websites Statistics • Supporting the Community • Staff, Finance & Buildings

  4. 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)

  5. 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)

  6. Basic Event Statisticssteady state - saturation

  7. Types of events(by volume of delegate days)

  8. Frequent Flyers

  9. UK Support 5368 people have registered in our database …

  10. Attendance from different countries Involvement in EGEE reflected in increase in EU participation

  11. Attendance from different sectors Engagement with healthcare continues…

  12. Sector Involvement

  13. 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/

  14. 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’.

  15. 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    (OGSA-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 SchopfArgonne (OGSA-DAI …)

  16. 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)

  17. Report Structure • Events • Event Statistics • Visitor Programme • Web • Websites Statistics • Supporting the Community • Staff, Finance & Buildings

  18. 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

  19. NeSC Web site Statistics(no bots or crawlers) From 1 August 2004 (Previous 3 years) • > 1.9 million successful requests (‘hits’) transferring 266 gigabytes of data (4.27 M transferring228 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 …

  20. NeSC Website Statistics

  21. NeSC Technical Report Downloads http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html 96.5% of downloads are either .pdf or Power Point documents …

  22. Report Structure • Events • Event Statistics • Visitor Programme • Web • Websites Statistics • Supporting the Community • Staff, Finance & Buildings

  23. 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-keeperagain. • 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

  24. 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 …

  25. 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

  26. Finances

  27. 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).

  28. Questions

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