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2005 User Survey Results

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Respondent Demographics

Number of respondents to the survey: 201

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	Respondents	Percent
ASCR	18	9.0%
BER	28	13.9%
BES	40	20.0%
FES	27	13.4%
HEP	39	19.4%
NP	46	22.9%
guests	3	1.4%

User Role	Number	Percent
Principal Investigators	38	18.9%
PI Proxies	23	11.4%
Project Managers	6	3.0%
Users	134	66.7%

Respondents by Organization:

Organization Type	Number	Percent
Universities	110	54.8%
DOE Labs	72	35.8%
Other Govt Labs	14	7.0%
Industry	5	2.5%
Organization	Number	Percent
Berkeley Lab	41	20.4%
UC Berkeley	11	5.5%
Livermore	7	3.5%
U. Washington	7	3.5%
PPPL	5	2.5%
SLAC	5	2.5%
U. Wisconsin	5	2.5%
Argonne	4	2.0%
Oak Ridge	4	2.0%
Texas A&M	4	2.0%
U. Chicago	4	2.0%

Organization	Number	Percent
Courant Inst	3	1.5%
NCAR	3	1.5%
Tech-X Corp	3	1.5%
UC Davis	3	1.5%
U. Michigan	3	1.5%
Yale	3	1.5%
Other University	67	33.3%
Other Gov. Labs	11	5.6%
Other DOE Labs	6	3.0%
Other Industry	2	1.0%

Which NERSC resources do you use?

Resource	Responses	Percent	Num who answered questions on this topic	Percent
IBM SP (Seaborg)	149	74.1%	144	71.6%
NIM	126	62.7%	145	72.1%
NERSC web site (www.nersc.gov)	118	58.7%	162	80.6%
HPSS	93	46.3%	140	69.7%
Jacquard	82	40.8%	79	39.3%
Consulting services	78	38.9%	179	89.1%
Account support services	57	28.4%	150	74.6%
PDSF	42	20.9%	39	19.4%
DaVinci: overall	20	10.0%	20	10.0%
Computer and Network Operations	13	6.5%	92	45.8%
Visualization services	12	6.0%	36	17.9%
NERSC CVS server	8	4.0%	39	19.4%
Grid services	5	2.5%	43	21.4%

How long have you used NERSC?

Time	Number	Percent
less than 6 months	29	14.7%
6 months - 3 years	87	44.2%
more than 3 years	81	41.1%

What desktop systems do you use to connect to NERSC?

System	Responses
Unix Total	181
PC Total	96
Mac Total	77
Linux	140
Windows XP	78
OS X	66
Sun Solaris	24
Windows 2000	15
MacOS	11
IBM AIX	6
SGI IRIX	6
HP HPUX	3
Windows ME/98	2

Web Browser Used to Take Survey:

Browser	Number	Percent
Mozilla	68	34.0%
Firefox	59	29.5%
Safari	35	17.5%
MSIE 6	34	17.0%
Netscape 4	3	1.5%
Galeon	1	0.5%

Operating System Used to Take Survey:

OS	Number	Percent
Linux	76	38.0%
Windows XP	52	26.0%
Mac OS X	52	26.0%
SunOS	9	4.5%
Windows 2000	7	3.5%
IRIX	2	1.0%
MacOS	1	0.5%
Windows 98	1	0.5%

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