UK National E-Infrastructure Survey 2014 - Update for HPC-SIG May 2014
1. 2014 UK National
E-Infrastructure Survey
Jeremy Yates, DiRAC: j.a.yates@ucl.ac.uk
Martin Hamilton, Jisc: m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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2. 2014 UK National
Academic E-Infrastructure Survey
Jeremy Yates, DiRAC: j.a.yates@ucl.ac.uk
Martin Hamilton, Jisc: m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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3. —Revised and updated version of survey conducted in 2013
—Led by Jeremy Yates, Martin Hamilton, Neil Chue Hong, with input
from Alan Real and Oz Parchment
—Probing several additional areas not covered in 2013:
—Staffing and workload, budget arrangements
—Sharing services / pooling effort
—Responses received from 17 large and specialist facilities, and 35 of
the 38 HPC-SIG member institutions
National E-Infrastructure Survey
17. National E-Infrastructure Survey
System Support
31%
Software
Engineering
10%
Application Support
19%
User Training
9%
Strategic Engagement
14%
Project
Management
10%
Other User Support
7%
FTE allocation breakdown
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
External Centrally Distributed Dept/research
centre
Where are staff based?
HEIs
Large/Specialist
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Yes No Under development
Do you offer your own training
courses?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Yes No Under Development
Do you develop your own training
materials?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Already engaged No Yes
Interest in shared pool of training
and/or training resources?
23. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
<=25% 25% to 50% 50% to 75% >75%
What proportion of your users are in self-
supporting groups?
All
Large
HEI
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24. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
<=25% 25% to 50% 50% to 75% >75%
What proportion of your users are in self-
supporting groups?
All
Large
HEI
0
5
10
15
20
25
Help required by new users
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25. —Initial results received by RCUK National E-Infrastructure group
— Informing roadmap for E-Infrastructure investments
—Further analysis and recommendations under development, e.g.
—Critical role of HEIs in the national E-Infrastructure
—Institutional funding uncertainties, staffing issues
—How might we make better use of resources?
—What does a well founded Research Computing team look like?
—Common technical and procedural approaches, e.g. AAAI
—Bring Your Own Workflow and lowering the barrier of entry
—Comments and queries?
National E-Infrastructure Survey
26. 2014 UK National
E-Infrastructure Survey
Jeremy Yates, DiRAC: j.a.yates@ucl.ac.uk
Martin Hamilton, Jisc: m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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