DESIRE: Peer Review Report

Project Number:

RE 4004 (RE)

Project Title:

DESIRE II - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education II

Deliverable Number:

D5.1

Deliverable Title:

Training and Dissemination. Web caching technologies workshop.

Deliverable Type:

PU

Deliverable Kind:

RE

Principal Reviewer:

Name

N/A


Address



E-Mail



Telephone



Fax



Credentials


Other Reviewers:

List of Questionnaire responders (see List of Workshop participants for personal information):

1. Kolics, Bertold

2. FRASHERI, NEKI

3. Buzzi, Marina

4. LOVRIC, Ivan

5. de Goede, Ted

6. Hospel, Ton

7. Embrechts, Hugo

8. Vu TIEN KHANG

See Appendix 1.

Summary:

Value to Users

High (Very useful)


General quality

(1 2 3) 2.9


Workshop materials

(1 2 3) 2.5


Presentations

(1 2 3) 2.6


Computer facility

(1 2 3) 2.1

Specific Criticisms

1






4


Developer Response:

1






4


Evaluation

Evaluation of the Workshop was done in the form of an email questionnaire following the workshop.

    1. Workshop was evaluated as either [Very useful] or [Useful] by all participants.
    2. There is a difference in estimation of importance of difference topics to participants that can be explained by their different areas of responsibility and interests.
    3. Quality of presentations was evaluated mostly as [High].
    4. General issues related to venue and workshop room, computer facilities, catering and social events all received [High] mark.
    5. All workshop participants expressed interest in receiving information about future similar events

Workshop Materials

Workshop Program and materials are available at http://www.terena.nl/tech/d2-workshop/d2cache99/

Workshop Program aimed at the local Web cache managers and at the managers of a top level cache who also manage local Web caching Mesh.

Main topics covered by Workshop Program were:

Workshop had practical sessions dealing with:

Key speakers were:

Alex Rousskov, NLANR (USA) - Benchmarking Proxies

Henrik Nordstrøm, Sweden - Transparnet Caching

Matija Grabner, ARNES Slovenia - Squid Monitoring

Jens Voekler, UniHanover Germany - Statistic and analysis

Henny Bekker, SEC Netherlands - Practical Cache meshes

Participants

Total number of workshop participants was 18 people from 12 European countries including 4 representatives from Central European countries.

Most of attendees were from academic and research community but 5 of them were from commercial companies which demonstrate growing interest in Web cache technologies among European industry.


Appendix 1

Results of Workshop evaluation by participants

1. ABOUT THE PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOP




















Workshop in general










Usefulness

useful

very useful

useful

very useful


very useful

very useful

very useful


Quality

3

2

3

3


3

3

3

2.9











Session 1.1

2

1

3

3

3

2

3

3

2.5

Session 1.2.

2

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

2.9

Session 1.3

2

2

2

2

2

1

2

3

2.0

Session 1.4

3

3

3

3

3

2

3

3

2.9










2.6











Session 2.1

1

2

3

3

2

2

2

3

2.3

Session 2.2

3

2

3

3

3

3

2

3

2.8

Session 2.3

3

3

3

3

3


3

2

2.9

Session 2.4 Closing session Questions and Answers

2

2

3

3

2


2

3

2.4










2.6











2. HOW DO YOU RATE THE LOGISTICAL ARRANGEMENT?










2.1. Workshop documentation

3

3

2

3

2

3

3

3

2.8

2.2. Workshop webpage

3

2


3

2

2

3

2

2.1

2.3. Venue and Workshop room

2

2

3

2

2

3

3

3

2.5

2.4. Computer facility

1

1

3

3

2

3

2

2

2.1










2.4

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Issue:
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