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By the Numbers 2006

How many e-mail transactions occur each day? How many people have Personal Web pages? How many people use Penn State dial-up services? The table below provides an at-a-glance view of ASET's wide-range of services. For project details, refer to the New, Improved, and Continued Services and/or the Project/Initiative Highlights sections of this report.

ServiceStats
Access Accounts approx. 120,577 at any given time
Short Term Access Accounts (STAAs): 9,903
Friends of Penn State (FPS) Accounts Total: 484,386
Migrated*: 136,264
*Migration is an automated process that
moves a user's digital identity from the internal to the external realm and vice versa. More information is available via the Friends of Penn State Developer's Site.
Directory Services 156,651 entries
200,000 queries/day
Calendering via Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar 2924 customers
560 resources (labs, conference rooms)
51 groups
VPN Connections
(from a non-Penn State network)
 1,202 connections/day
Dial-up Connections an average of  9,536 connections/day
average length of call is 70 minutes
Web Space Directories Personal: 41,296
Departmental: 140
Course: 737
Clubs/Student Organizations: 899
Hits to www.psu.edu  2.3 million/day
E-mail transactions 3.5 million/day
POP: 71,000/day; 75,888/week
KPOP: 55,050/day; 66,800/week
WebMail: 55,000/day; 66,717/week
IMAP: 115/day; 115/week
E-mail Spam Filtering  1-4 million spam messages/day
Virtual Web Hosting 21 virtual Web hosts for ITS units and services
39 virtual Web hosts for other departments

Penn State Search Engine
(Google Search Appliance)
Total indexed documents: 1,000,000 in old search engine, 1,380,000 in search engine upgrade.
Average search queries/day: 5,000 - 25,000
File Backups 224TB backed up/archived data stored
60 of the 224TB are PASS backups
1,700 computers backup/month
PASS Home Directories 135,571
Total storage capacity for PASS increased to 16.4TB
Napster Number of songs/day served via cache server: 290,000
Lion-XL

delivered 2,689,490.6 CPU hours
Jobs run: 149,656
Lion-XM

delivered 1,913,440.11 CPU hours
Jobs run: 282,534
Lion-XO
delivered 2,207,226.91 CPU hours
Jobs run: 157,991
Unisys System

delivered 72,969.17 CPU hours
Jobs run: 2,338
Microsoft Active Directory
integration with Penn State Access Accounts
Direct Trusts between Active Directory domains and MIT Kerberos realm (including ASET's ACCESS domain): 13

ACCESS.psu.edu Active Directory forest, including the ACCESS root domain and child domains:
  • child domains in the ACCESS forest: 13
  • user accounts in the ACCESS Forest: 165,439 machine accounts in the ACCESS Forest : 4,284
  • Specific counts for ACCESS root domain:
    • user accounts in the ACCESS Domain: 165,225 machine accounts in the ACCESS Domain : 1,312
    • Organizational Units in ACCESS domain: 33
Microsoft Windows Software Update Service (WSUS) at Penn State
Updates
Total: 1659
Approved updates: 1500
Updates not approved: 23
Declined updates: 136

Computers
Total: 612
Penn State WebAccess 250 Web sites registered
250,000 logins per day by 65,000 unique accounts
300,000 sessions to over 100 unique Web sites per day