D3.1.3: First Dissemination Report
Creators: name: Turunen, Ari
name: Leiponen, Tiina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure
Dissemination
Outreach

description: The First Dissemination Report describes the PRACE dissemination and outreach activities for project months M1–M11 (1.9.2011 – 31.7.2012). Although PRACE-1IP and PRACE-2IP projects have both work packages focused on dissemination and outreach, there are a few differences. In PRACE-1IP the work package 3 took care of training, which is not the case in PRACE-2IP. In PRACE-2IP it is clearly stated that WP3 will disseminate also results of Tier-1 projects and will create dissemination material for schools on HPC.<br> During the project months M1–M11, 30 press releases and four newsletters were published. Press releases were sent to over 7000 journalists around the world. The total number of PRACE related online articles and news items from the beginning of September until the end of July 2012 was 590. The press releases were sent by both PRACE-1IP and PRACE-2IP projects since it is a normal PRACE dissemination process.<br> The last three newsletters contained industrial as well as scientific cases which have used the resources provided by PRACE. Generally, there is also information about featured events, latest news and project presentations in each newsletter.<br> During the reporting period the special section of 21P project was created to PRACE-RI website. It provides detailed information on PRACE-2IP project, its objectives, and its action plan. Also the research, service, and networking activities are described. It also has a section for all public deliverable created by the PRACE-2IP project.<br> There have been a total of 304 701 visitors (157 031 unique visitors) since the launching of the PRACE project website on March 19, 2008. The monitoring period ends until the end of May 2012. There have nearly 600 visitors daily in average. The number of (unique) visits is increasing steadily.<br> The PRACE brochure, folder and flyer were updated for the Industrial seminar and ISC. One new poster was created and three posters were updated. Two new roll-ups were printed. Small amount of PRACE gadgets (pens, USB memory sticks, mugs and T-shirts) were distributed during the major events. Moreover, WP3 created new general presentations to be shown at various events. The PRACE video production was shifted from PRACE-2IP to PRACE-1IP and thus the outreach activities related to video is described in PRACE-1IP the deliverable D3.1.8.<br> PRACE participated in three major events (Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle, USA, ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, and Industrial Seminar in Bologna, Italy). PRACE has actively collected contacts from these events to CRM database, and this work continued also during the PRACE-2IP project. The total number of new contacts in August 2012 is 3765. Of those contacts 2950 were collected in PRACE-2IP reporting period. This was due to extensive effort to populate the database with all the collected contacts.<br> PRACE ensures transparency by publishing all important presentations and public deliverables and best-practice documents on the PRACE RI web site. Until the end of July 2012 there was on-line 83.5 hours of HPC video training material 173 training presentations and 201 other presentations 89 public deliverables 10 best practice guides and 11 user documentations 50 white papers