1. Centre Review Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager 27 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 4 th 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 Statistics steady 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 SectorNumber Registered in Database Government72 Government Laboratories305 Healthcare203 Higher Education3732 Industry442 Information Services34 Professional Societies18 Projects34 Research Councils94 Research Institutes314

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 Jason Novotny (OGSA-DAI/GridSphere) Nov 2004 Dr Andrew Moore Carnegie Mellon University Dr Andrew Moore (Large datasets/AstroGrid) Oct 2004 Dr Beth Plale Indiana University Dr Beth Plale (OGSA-DAI) Dr Ying ChenDr Ying Chen Jefferson Lab(ILDG) Dr Eric NeilsenDr Eric Neilsen Fermilab (ILDG) Timur PerelmutovTimur Perelmutov Fermilab(SRM/GridPP) Don PetravickDon Petravick Fermilab(SRM/GridPP) Aug 2004 Dr Seth Ruffins California Institute of Technology Dr Seth Ruffins (Mouse Atlas) Continuing …Dr Jennifer Schopf Argonne(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 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 …

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-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

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 eSI EdinburghGlasgow (To end of January 2005) Project Total Project Total Budget% Total Equipment-£197£0-£197£11,210 Events£25,062£0£25,062£270,0009.3% Maintenance£1,102£0£1,102£8,56812.9% Overheads£35,890£3,246£39,135£185,96021.0% Staff£78,021£7,056£85,077£404,26221.0% Visitors£18,463£0£18,463£120,00015.4% Total£158,340£10,301£168,641£1,000,000 NeSC Core Project Total Project Total Budget% Total Maintenance£0£265 £40066% Overheads£22,062£9,847£31,908£125,25625% Staff£47,960£21,406£69,366£272,29625% Travel£3,110£1,476£4,586£2,048224% Total£73,131£32,995£106,126£400,000

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