Centre Review

Dr Anna KenwayCentre Manager

27 May 2005

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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)

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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5368 people have registered in our database …

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Engagement with healthcare continues…

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Future Events43 already in an advanced stage of planningThrough to Feb 2006Including…

13 conferences10 workshops12 training events

on a wide range of technical and scientific issues

See:http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

PPARC UK Postgraduate School

Held in early MayRequested by PPARC – but others can attendFor students in their second year of their PhDThe third time we have run this eventA 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’.

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 Schopf Argonne (OGSA-DAI …)

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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Websites

We now host:http://www.nesc.ac.ukhttp://www.allhands.org.ukhttp://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/http://forum.dcc.ac.uk/registration/

We have also registered:http://www.iecnet.org.uk

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 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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96.5% of downloads are either .pdf or Power Point documents …

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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

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 …

Administrative Support for the Core Programme and Other

ProjectsGrants managed:

GridNet, (GridNet2)eSTORM, eSTORM2

All Hands Meeting:Paper submission, review process and CD productionClerical support at the eventServing on the committee

Web:Secure website, email lists and archive

Digital Curation Centre:Associates Network ForumThe Official Opening

FinanceseSI Edinburgh Glasgow

 (To end of January 2005)  

     

Project TotalProject Total

Budget %  Total Total

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 TotalProject Total

Budget %  Total Total

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  

Finances – Value Added

University of Edinburgh £ 9.84 MUniversity of Glasgow £ 1.92 MIBM £ 1.06 MSHEFC £ 2.28 MEGEE £ 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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