The overall progress of the project is measurable by activity metrics aligned against set yearly objectives.

For more information about metrics, please access the following online tools:

 Further operation tools are available on the Operational Tools wiki page.

  • Year 1 metrics (Q1 to Q4)
  • Q5: May to July 2011
  • Q6: August to October 2011
  • Q7: November 2011 to January 2012
  • Q8: February to April 2012
Project objective Metrics Target (year 2) Q5 Q6
Expansion of a nationally-based production infrastructure Total number of production resource centres that are part of EGI (M.SA1.Size.1) 330 346 348
Total number of job slots available in EGI – Integrated and peer infrastructures (M.SA1.Size.2) 350,000 337,608 364,500
EGI monthly reliability [availability] of site middleware services (M.SA1.Operation.5) 91.0% [na] 95.3% [94.7%] 94.5%
Support of European researchers and international collaborators through VRCs MoUs with VRCs (M.NA2.11) 10 1 1
Number of papers from EGI Users (M.NA2.5) 60 39 16
Number of jobs done a day (M.SA1.Usage.1) 525,000 1,029,830 1,331,525
Sustainable support for Heavy User Communities Number of production sites supporting MPI (M.SA1.Integration.2); 100 93 91
Number of users from HUC VOs 5,500 9,672 9,861*
Addition of new User Communities Amount of integrated desktop resources (M.SA1.Integration.3) (number of Resource Centres) 5 1 [= 1,548 HEP-SPEC06] 0
Number of users from non-HUC VOs 1,000 5,840 6,413**
Public events organised by EGI.eu & NGI teams (M.NA2.6)*** 2,000 1,400 (19 events) TOC (17 events)
Transparent integration of other infrastructures Number of MoUs or agreements signed with external (non-EGI) Resource Infrastructure Providers (M.NA2.10) 5 0 1
Integration of new technologies and resources Number of MoUs or agreements signed with technology providers (M.NA2.9) 4 0 0
Number of production HPC clusters (M.SA1.Integration.1) 3 56 38
Amount of virtualised installed capacity accessible to EGI users (M.SA1.Integration.4) (number of Resource Centres) 1 1 [= 16,695 HEP-SPEC06] 6 [=21,330 HEP-SPEC06]

 

* Users (as of 23 November 2011), subdivided in: High Energy Physics - 7603; Life Sciences - 1073; Computational Chemistry - 210, Astronomy & Astrophysics - 586, Earth Sciences - 325 & Fusion - 94

** Users (as of 23 November 2011), subdivided in: Computer Science & Mathematics - 42; Multidisciplinary - 2,961 & Other - 3,410

*** expressed in the number of participants in a one-day event. For example, 2000 translates to 2000 people attending a ten-day event, or 500 people attending a 4-day event.