Usage of UPSCALE by Undergraduate Students in Physics

One of the indicators of the UPSCALE facility is the amount of usage provided to our undergraduates. This page summarises the 1996-97 academic year.

First we summarise the usage of our Interactive Student Services, which is a menu-driven system providing software for data analysis, symbolic and mathematical computation, and access to our compilers and email.

• Active accounts: 1948. This is essentially equal to the total number of undergraduate students taking one or more Physics courses at the St. George campus, plus most first year students taking a Physics course at the Erindale campus.
• Number of logins: 44,688. The usage varies with the cycle of the academic year. UPSCALE averages nearly 1700 logins per week when classes are in session, with peaks of well over 2000 per week.
• Connect hours: 16,426. This is the total number of hours the undergraduate students were logged in to the facility.

Our information sub-system is accessed via the World Wide Web. Some usage figures for our web site are:

• 155,053 total accesses.
• 482,046 files transmitted.
• 68.1% of the transmitted files were to students dialing in from home, or accessing us from the residences or other University sites.

Not discussed here are the usage of the facility via our networked PC's.

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