Site Operations Committee Issue Forum

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Site Operations Committee Issue Forum

• Marc Eberhard
• Chair, Site Operations Committee
• Professor, University of Washington

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Outline

• Introduction to SOC
• ISSUE 1. What is (or should be) User-Sharing?
• ISSUE 2. What defines success at a NEES
  facility, and how should success be evaluated?
• ISSUE 3. Expanding the NEES community. How can
  laboratories currently outside the NEES network
  contribute capacity/data? What would be the
  possible impacts on NEES equipment sites?

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SOC Membership

• Ian Aiken, SIE Corp
• Tarek Abdoun, RPI
• Ross Boulanger, UCD
• Gregory Deierlien, Stanford
• Marc Eberhard, Washington
• Daniel Kuchma, Ilinois
• Glenn Ricks, Georgia IT

• David Sanders
• Benson Shing, UCSD
• David Simpson
• Jim Wight, Michigan
• Solomon Yim, OSU
• Roberto Leon, Georgia IT (BOD Liaison)
• Jay Berger, NEESinc (Staff Liaison)

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SOC Reponsibilities

• Strategies/Policies for Site Operations
• User-Sharing Policy
• Major Equipment Repair
• Advise NEESinc on Issues of Community Interest
• SOC Issue Forum
• Annual Review of ES Operations
• Annual Recommendation of ES Budgets
• Annual Review of ES Maintenance and Metrology
  Practices
• When Requested, Assist NEESinc or BOD in
  Resolving Disputes
• Consider Other Issues at Request of BOD

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Issue 1

• What is (or should be) User-Sharing?

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Issue 2

• What defines success at a NEES facility, and how
  should success be evaluated?

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Evaluation Criteria

• Fixed-Scope Research
• Demand for site
• of proposal requests (not available yet from
  NSF information collected by sites?)
• of projects funded/scheduled (local and remote
  PI)
• tests/runs planned/time needed (vary with level
  of test complexity, metrics being developed)
• Throughput
• tests/runs planned (vary with level of test
  complexity and available budget, metrics not yet
  available)
• datasets (joint responsibility with research PIs)
• User satisfaction
• Surveys (fragmentary, so far)
• Budget allocation for fixed scope (subjective)

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Evaluation Criteria

• Flexible-Scope Research
• EOT
• Workshops and training courses
• Website
• K-12
• Tours and presentations
• Site Preparedness
• EEI
• Safety
• PMC
• Site Administration
• Staffing
• Responsiveness to NEESinc and NEESit
• Budget Management

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Issue 3

• Expanding the NEES community. How can
  laboratories currently outside the NEES network
  contribute capacity/data? What would be the
  possible impacts on NEES equipment sites?

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Connecting Labs to Network

• What are we talking about?
• Limited IT (website, cameras, point of
  presence)
• Contributing data to repository
• Very limited funding
• Why consider this?
• Expanding the NEES community (even at sites)
• Tests already going on at labs outside of
  network.
• Capture much more data
• Reduced travel expenses for routine tests
• EOT

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SOC Issue Forum

• What is (or should be) User-Sharing?
• What defines success at a NEES facility, and how
  should success be evaluated?
• Expanding the NEES community. How can
  laboratories currently outside the NEES network
  contribute capacity/data? What would be the
  possible impacts on NEES equipment sites?