User Information
Number of respondents to the survey: 300
- Respondents by DOE Office and User Role
- Respondents by Organization
- Which NERSC resources do you use?
- How long have you used NERSC?
- What desktop systems do you use to connect to NERSC?
- Web Browser Used to Take Survey
- Operating System Used to Take Survey
Respondents by DOE Office and User Role:
| Office | Number | Percent |
|---|
| ASCR |
22 |
7 |
| BER |
43 |
14 |
| BES |
65 |
22 |
| FES |
55 |
18 |
| HENP |
112 |
37 |
| guests |
3 |
1 |
|
|
| User Role | Number | Percent |
|---|
| Principal Investigators |
48 |
16 |
| PI Proxies |
34 |
11 |
| Project Managers |
10 |
3 |
| Users |
208 |
69 |
|
Respondents by Organization:
| Organization Type | Number | Percent |
|---|
| Universities |
169 |
56 |
| DOE Labs |
107 |
36 |
| Industry |
9 |
3 |
| Other Govt Labs |
10 |
3 |
| Private Labs |
5 |
2 |
| Organization | Number | Percent |
|---|
| Berkeley Lab |
42 |
14 |
| UC Berkeley |
17 |
6 |
| Argonne |
12 |
4 |
| Livermore |
10 |
3 |
| PPPL |
9 |
3 |
| Oak Ridge |
8 |
3 |
| U Wisconsin |
7 |
2 |
| UC Santa Cruz |
7 |
2 |
| Brookhaven |
6 |
2 |
| PNNL |
6 |
2 |
| U. Maryland |
6 |
2 |
| NCAR |
5 |
2 |
| Ohio State |
5 |
2 |
| SLAC |
5 |
2 |
| U Colorado |
5 |
2 |
| Auburn U |
4 |
1 |
| Iowa State |
4 |
1 |
| Los Alamos |
4 |
1 |
| Max Planck Inst. Astro. |
4 |
1 |
| Northwestern U. |
4 |
1 |
| U Texas |
4 |
1 |
| U Washington |
4 |
1 |
| UC Davis |
4 |
1 |
| UCLA |
4 |
1 |
|
| Organization | Number |
|---|
| Ames Lab |
3 |
| General Atomics |
3 |
| NREL |
3 |
| U Georgia |
3 |
| U Michigan |
3 |
| U Minnesota |
3 |
| U Utah |
3 |
| UC San Diego |
3 |
| Vanderbilt |
3 |
| Yale |
3 |
| Harvard |
2 |
| Inst. Nat. de Physique |
2 |
| Inst. Nat. di Fisica Nucleare |
2 |
| JGI |
2 |
| MIT |
2 |
| N.C. State |
2 |
| New Mexico St. |
2 |
| New York Univ |
2 |
| Omega-P |
2 |
| Purdue |
2 |
| Stanford |
2 |
| SUNY Stony Brook |
2 |
| U. Illinois |
2 |
| U. South Carolina |
2 |
| UC Irvine |
2 |
| UC Santa Barbara |
2 |
| Wayne State U. |
2 |
| Other University |
44 |
| Other Gov. Labs |
4 |
| Other Industry |
3 |
| Private Labs |
1 |
| Other DOE Labs |
1 |
|
Which NERSC resources do you use?
Note that users did not always check all the resources they use -- compare the table below with How Satisfied are you? (sorted by Number of Responses).
| Resource | No. of
Responses |
|---|
| SP |
210 |
| HPSS |
118 |
| T3E |
92 |
| NIM |
88 |
| Consulting |
80 |
| HPCF Website |
66 |
| Account Support |
55 |
| PVP |
53 |
| PDSF |
49 |
| Computer Operations and Network Support |
18 |
| Alvarez |
11 |
| Escher |
8 |
| Newton |
8 |
|
How long have you used NERSC?
| Time | Number | Percent |
|---|
| less than 6 months |
53 |
18 |
| 6 months - 3 years |
135 |
46 |
| more than 3 years |
104 |
36 |
|
What desktop systems do you use to connect to NERSC?
| Operating System Type | Number |
|---|
| Unix |
350 |
| PC |
138 |
| MAC |
66 |
| Other |
3 |
| Individual Systems | Number |
|---|
| UNIX-linux |
189 |
| PC-win2000 |
74 |
| UNIX-solaris |
72 |
| PC-winXP |
39 |
| MAC-OSX |
36 |
| MAC-macos |
30 |
| UNIX-irix |
25 |
| PC-win98 |
21 |
| UNIX-aix |
20 |
| UNIX-hpux |
20 |
|
|
| Individual Systems | Number |
|---|
| UNIX-tru64 |
14 |
| UNIX-other |
12 |
| PC-win95 |
3 |
| OSF1 |
2 |
| PC-windows3.0 |
1 |
| PC-OS/2 |
1 |
| Digital Alpha |
2 |
| Open VMS |
1 |
| PalmOS |
1 |
| Digital UNIX |
1 |
| NCD X terminal |
1 |
| FreeBSD |
1 |
| Alpha DS10 |
1 |
| Putty |
1 |
| Ultrix |
1 |
|
Web Browser Used to Take Survey:
| Browser | Number | Percent | Change in Percent from '01 | Annual Growth Rate |
|---|
| Netscape 4 |
129 |
42.7 |
-28.1 |
-40% |
| MSIE 6 |
46 |
15.2 |
+13.1 |
+624% |
| MSIE 5 |
46 |
15.2 |
-3.4 |
-18% |
| Mozilla |
35 |
11.6 |
+7.4 |
+176% |
| Netscape 6 |
25 |
8.3 |
+6.6 |
+388% |
| Konqueror |
8 |
2.6 |
+1.8 |
+225% |
| Galeon |
6 |
2.0 |
+2.0 |
|
| MSIE 4 |
2 |
0.7 |
-0.1 |
-12% |
| Netscape 7 |
2 |
0.7 |
|
|
| OmniWeb |
2 |
0.7 |
|
|
| Netscape 3 |
1 |
0.3 |
|
|
|
| All Netscape 3-4 |
130 |
43.0 |
-28.2 |
-40% |
| All MSIE |
94 |
31.1 |
+9.6 |
+45% |
| All Mozilla-based |
68 |
22.6 |
+16.7 |
+383% |
| All Other |
10 |
3.3 |
+2.1 |
+175% |
|
Operating System Used to Take Survey:
| OS | Number | Percent |
|---|
| Linux |
95 |
31.5 |
| Windows NT |
88 |
29.1 |
| Macintosh |
41 |
13.6 |
| SunOS |
31 |
10.3 |
| Windows 98 |
22 |
7.3 |
| DEC OSF |
12 |
4.0 |
| SGI IRIX |
6 |
2.0 |
| HP-UX |
2 |
0.7 |
| IBM AIX |
2 |
0.7 |
| Unknown X11 |
1 |
0.3 |
| OS/2 |
1 |
0.3 |
| Windows 95 |
1 |
0.3 |
|
| All UNIX |
149 |
49.3 |
| All Windows |
111 |
36.8 |
| All Macintosh |
41 |
13.6 |
|
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