Centre Review
30 September 2003
Centre Manager’s Report
Dr Anna Kenway
Report Structure
Events
Events held in the 2nd year.
Statistics
Visitor Programme
Web
Changes in the last year
Statistics of usage
Supporting the Community
Staff, Buildings & Finance
Events held in the 2nd Year
(from 1 Aug 2002 to 31 Jul 2003)
We have had 86 events: (Year 1 figures in brackets)
11 project meetings
( 4)
11 research meetings
( 7)
25 workshops
(17 + 1)
2 schools
(0)
15 training sessions
(8)
12 outreach events
(3)
5 international meetings
(1)
5 e-Science management meetings (7)
(though the definitions are fuzzy!)
Basic Event Statistics
14
1400
Number of Events
Number Attending
12
1200
Delegate Days
Linear (Delegate Days)
Linear (Number Attending)
10
1000
Linear (Number of Events)
9/2003
8/2003
7/2003
6/2003
5/2003
4/2003
3/2003
2/2003
1/2003
12/2002
11/2002
10/2002
9/2002
8/2002
7/2002
6/2002
5/2002
0
4/2002
0
3/2002
200
2/2002
2
1/2002
400
12/2001
4
11/2001
600
10/2001
6
9/2001
800
8/2001
8
Basic Event Statistics
14
1400
Number of Events
Excluding GGF5
Number Attending
12
1200
Delegate Days
Linear (Delegate Days)
Linear (Number Attending)
10
1000
Linear (Number of Events)
9/2003
8/2003
7/2003
6/2003
5/2003
4/2003
3/2003
2/2003
1/2003
12/2002
11/2002
10/2002
9/2002
8/2002
7/2002
6/2002
5/2002
0
4/2002
0
3/2002
200
2/2002
2
1/2002
400
12/2001
4
11/2001
600
10/2001
6
9/2001
800
8/2001
8
Types of events
(statistics from this point exclude GGF5)
30
workshop
training
school
25
research
project
outreach
management
international
conference
15
10
5
Q4/2003
Q3/2003
Q2/2003
Q1/2003
Q4/2002
Q3/2002
Q2/2002
Q1/2002
Q4/2001
0
Q3/2001
Number of events
20
Frequent Flyers
900
1014
UK
800
Europe (non UK)
North America
700
Australasia
Other
600
500
400
300
200
100
MPA 38
MPA (37)
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Attendances
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
UK Support
NeSC Acceptances (people-events)
NeSC Registered Users
5%
7%
7%
AC.UK
12%
UK (Other)
9%
Other Europe
11%
66%
North America
Australasia
Other
78%
Is our International profile changing?
450
400
300
250
Other
Australasia
North America
200
Europe (non UK)
UK
150
100
50
Q3/2003
Q2/2003
Q1/2003
Q4/2002
Q3/2002
Q2/2002
Q1/2002
0
Q4/2001
Number attending events
350
Industrial Involvement
194 registered users from 97 companies
133 different delegates have attended events
(169 event registrations) from 64 companies
including not only
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Hewlett-Packard
but also …
Apple, Astra Zeneca, BAE, Cisco, Honeywell,
Motorola, Organon, Pfizer, Siemens
Future Events
Too many to list (in the Aug 31 report)
27 already in an advanced stage of planning
Through to June 2004
Including…
Training on GT3, Condor, OGSI & .NET
Miron Livny public lecture
Committed to supporting WWW conference in 2005
See www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/
Suggestions are always welcome.
Visiting Researchers
David Maier
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Jun/Jul- 02
Greg Riccardi
Florida State University, USA
Jun/Oct-02
Chip Watson
Jefferson Lab, USA
Aug/02
Dave Richards
Jefferson Lab, USA
Sep/02
Dave Abel
CSIRO, Australia
Sep/02
Roy Williams
Caltech, USA
Oct/02
Steve Tuecke
ANL, USA
Jan/03
Herb Budd
IBM Life Sciences
Mar/03
Geoffrey Fox
Indiana University, USA
Apr/03
Richard Thomas
The University of Western Australia
Apr/03
Stephen Hall
Lancaster University
May/03
Jim Gray
Microsoft Research
Jun/03
Alex Szalay
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Roy Williams
California Institute of Technology
Greg Riccardi
Florida State University
Arthur Nicewick
Center for Advanced Technologies, Virginia USA
Aug/03
Steve Tuecke
Argonne National Laboratories
Aug/03
Peter Lamb
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia
Aug/Sep-03
Beth Plale
Indiana University
Aug/Sep-03
Jun/Jul 03
Jun/03
Jul/03
… and of course
Richard Baldock (MRC)
Bob Mann (IfA)
… who have been 50% on secondment on the visiting
researchers’ programme.
All visitors are asked to produce a report and these will
appear in the next annual report (in progress).
Future Visitors:
Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, October 03
Rob Edwards, Jefferson Lab, Spring 04
Engaging with SAB to generate more visitors
Conclusions
We have consolidated our year 1 activities
(workshops, research)
as well as expanding into other areas (training,
international) and have achieved a steady state
for this level of staffing.
We have a booking for 2005 (and 2009) already
– it is important to take a long-term view.
Until now we have largely been responsive to
requests for events, but we are implementing
formal evaluation methods and we will become
selective.
Website
Now 3 Gigabytes in size.
Moved to our own servers on May 28, 2003
Some redesign of appearance in the last few
months
Constant development and improvement of
structure as our role develops
Basic Statistics 1
Since going ‘live’ in 2001 (figures in last week to
29 September)
> 2 million successful requests (‘hits’)
transferring 100 gigabytes of data
Average hits per day 2847 (4954)
Distinct files served 17,016 (2546)
… to 65,175 (2564) distinct hosts
Average data transferred per day 140 MB (373
MB)
Basic Statistics 2
200,000
16,000
Volume (MB)
180,000
14,000
Hits
Expon. (Volume (MB))
160,000
Linear (Volume (MB))
12,000
140,000
8,000
80,000
6,000
60,000
4,000
40,000
2,000
20,000
9/2003
8/2003
7/2003
6/2003
5/2003
4/2003
3/2003
2/2003
1/2003
12/2002
11/2002
10/2002
9/2002
8/2002
7/2002
6/2002
5/2002
4/2002
3/2002
0
2/2002
0
1/2002
Hits
100,000
MB
10,000
120,000
Web Hits - Domain
9%
.ac.uk
.uk (other)
4%
unresolved
.ibm.com
47%
17%
.com (other)
.net
.edu
.jp
.de
other
15%
4%
Web Hits - Organisation
ed.ac.uk
gla.ac.uk
20%
nesc.ac.uk
35%
rc.ac.uk
.ac.uk (other)
11%
googlebot.com.
btopenworld.com
ibm.com
other
15%
15%
Web Volume - Directory
(after move to NeSC servers)
9%
5%
/talks/
/events/
/technical_papers/
5%
48%
/esi/
/news/
/bibliography/
Other
31%
Web Volume - File type
3%
3%
.pdf [Adobe Acrobat]
.ppt [Powerpoint]
.cfm [Cold Fusion]
20%
.gif [GIF graphics]
.htm(l) [Hypertext]
69%
.jpg [JPEG graphics]
Other
Supporting the Community
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/resources/
SIGs
e-Science Data mining (Bob Mann)
e-Science Project Management (Tony Linde)
e-Science Visualisation (Ken Brodlie)
NeSCForge
QCDGrid (ILDG)
Astrogrid (under consideration)
Early days for statistics – we will implement a measuring method.
Web Conclusions
51% of our requests are from the .uk domain
18% from ‘commercial’
Almost 90% of requests are for .pdf and .ppt files
i.e. talks and presentations
Next Steps
Implement a mirror at AN Other site (urgent)
Improve visibility of Research area
(Funded) indexed UK e-Science bibliography
Staff
Relatively stable after a small expansion in January
2003. New posts in the last year were:
Dave Berry and Richard Sinnott
Receptionist (Jennifer Hurst) at eSI
University of Edinburgh extended contracts of key fixedterm staff to July 2006. University of Glasgow position
still being discussed.
Staff appraisal has been implemented, and the first
round is nearly complete.
The training manager (‘JISC post’) interviews were held
last Friday and we are about to appoint.
Buildings
eSI: Exclusive use of building from August 2002.
eSI: Training room for 20 implemented in
December 2002.
UoE: Expanded to the basement of Old College
in February 2003.
UoG: Opening of the e-Science Hub in
September 2003, including offices and further
training space.
We have filled all available space – again.
Discussions for further space expansion are
under way .
Finances
Budget
eSI
Staff
Overheads
Programme Costs
Resident Scientist
Infrastructure
Advisory Board
134.0
61.6
709.2
450.0
124.2
21.0
1500.0
Actuals
Year 1
Year 2
(£k)
107.1
178.8
49.3
82.2
131.2
223.6
5.0
50.6
63.2
133.0
0.0
0.0
355.7
668.4
Projected
Year 3 Balance
192.8
88.7
137.4
50.0
0.0
7.0
475.9
-344.7
-158.6
217.0
344.4
-72.1
14.0
0.0
Infrastructure
Staff
Overhead
Equipment
Travel
Total
AccessGrid
Equipment
Addendum 1
MC
MC Overhead
Total
Total
522.2
240.2
19.6
58.2
840.2
144.1
66.3
52.0
47.0
309.5
166.8
76.7
2.0
28.0
273.6
177.1
81.5
0.0
0.0
258.6
34.1
15.7
-34.4
-16.8
-1.4
117.5
135.5
0.3
0.0
-18.3
37.3
17.2
54.5
12.4
5.7
18.2
2.1
1.0
3.0
22.8
10.5
33.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
2512.2
818.8
945.3
767.8
-19.7
Finance
NeSC core is projected to balance to 0 within 1k
at end of Year 3.
Access Grid budget (3 built) is overspent by 17k.
eSI projections show that in the final year we will
have available for expenditure:
137k for the events programme – this will be enough.
The year 2 high level of expenditure was incurred in
outsourcing training.
50k for the visitors’ programme – the same as in year
2.
Finances continued…
How we are keeping eSI costs down:
We have just completed a competitive tender
process for the provision of catering (a large
component of eSI expenditure ~ 50 k per
annum), as well as self-service coffee machines.
The use of overtime and temp staff (in lieu of
hiring additional staff) in high volume periods.
All purchasing is done through the Universities’
negotiated contracts.
Administrative Support for the Core
Programme
Grants managed:
GridNet
eSTORM, eSTORM2
All Hands Meeting:
Paper submission and CD production
Clerical support at the event
Web
Secure website
Consolidated image of UK e-Science programme
Finish