HPC Resources
397 of the 411 respondents answered questions in this section. The average score was 6.23 / 7.
Satisfaction Ratings: 7=Very satisfied, 6=Mostly satisfied, 5=Somewhat satisfied, 4=Neutral, 3=Somewhat dissatisfied, 2=Mostly dissatisfied, 1=Very dissatisfied
| Item | Num who rated this item as: | Num Resp | Average Score | Std. Dev. | Change from 2010 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| GLOBAL HOMES: Reliability | 2 | 3 | 35 | 188 | 228 | 6.79 | 0.49 | 0.15 | |||
| HPSS: Reliability (data integrity) | 4 | 3 | 29 | 127 | 163 | 6.71 | 0.63 | 0.02 | |||
| HPSS: Uptime (Availability) | 3 | 5 | 31 | 127 | 166 | 6.70 | 0.62 | 0.05 | |||
| GLOBAL HOMES: Uptime | 1 | 3 | 6 | 46 | 173 | 229 | 6.69 | 0.63 | 0.09 | ||
| PROJECT: Reliability | 3 | 1 | 27 | 88 | 119 | 6.68 | 0.62 | 0.05 | |||
| PROJECT: Overall | 3 | 4 | 32 | 88 | 127 | 6.61 | 0.67 | 0.04 | |||
| GLOBAL HOMES: Overall | 1 | 2 | 12 | 58 | 164 | 237 | 6.61 | 0.66 | 0.14 | ||
| PROJECT: Uptime | 2 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 87 | 122 | 6.58 | 0.93 | 0.00 | ||
| GLOBAL SCRATCH: Reliability | 2 | 6 | 5 | 32 | 116 | 161 | 6.58 | 0.83 | |||
| CARVER: Uptime (Availability) | 4 | 5 | 33 | 74 | 116 | 6.53 | 0.74 | 0.14 | |||
| NETWORK: Network performance within NERSC (e.g. Seaborg to HPSS) | 2 | 4 | 9 | 60 | 130 | 205 | 6.52 | 0.76 | -0.03 | ||
| GLOBAL SCRATCH: Uptime | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 111 | 165 | 6.48 | 0.97 | ||
| HOPPER: Uptime (Availability) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 83 | 157 | 262 | 6.47 | 0.79 | 0.24 | |
| HOPPER: Overall | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 92 | 156 | 266 | 6.47 | 0.82 | 0.38 | |
| GRID: Access and Authentication | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 47 | 75 | 6.47 | 0.86 | -0.03 | ||
| GRID: File Transfer | 2 | 5 | 25 | 37 | 69 | 6.41 | 0.75 | 0.02 | |||
| GLOBAL SCRATCH: Overall | 3 | 6 | 13 | 48 | 102 | 172 | 6.40 | 0.90 | |||
| GLOBAL HOMES: File and Directory Operations | 1 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 58 | 129 | 217 | 6.37 | 0.95 | 0.04 | |
| PROJECT: File and Directory Operations | 1 | 9 | 4 | 34 | 68 | 116 | 6.36 | 0.97 | -0.05 | ||
| GLOBAL HOMES: I/O Bandwidth | 1 | 12 | 18 | 63 | 123 | 217 | 6.36 | 0.89 | |||
| PROJECT: I/O Bandwidth | 6 | 9 | 40 | 61 | 116 | 6.34 | 0.84 | -0.03 | |||
| DIRAC: Uptime (Availability) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 33 | 6.33 | 1.11 | |||
| GRID: Job Monitoring | 5 | 5 | 22 | 37 | 69 | 6.32 | 0.90 | 0.01 | |||
| GRID: Job Submission | 6 | 4 | 22 | 38 | 70 | 6.31 | 0.93 | -0.10 | |||
| DIRAC: Overall | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 32 | 6.31 | 1.15 | |||
| CARVER: Overall | 3 | 11 | 51 | 54 | 119 | 6.31 | 0.75 | -0.04 | |||
| HPSS: Data transfer rates | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 45 | 96 | 167 | 6.30 | 1.05 | -0.02 | |
| HPSS: Overall satisfaction | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 56 | 102 | 181 | 6.30 | 1.11 | -0.16 |
| EUCLID: Uptime (Availability) | 6 | 2 | 11 | 27 | 46 | 6.28 | 1.05 | ||||
| PDSF: Batch queue structure | 4 | 1 | 14 | 19 | 38 | 6.26 | 0.95 | 0.04 | |||
| GLOBAL SCRATCH: I/O Bandwidth | 3 | 12 | 13 | 48 | 85 | 161 | 6.24 | 1.01 | |||
| GLOBAL SCRATCH: File and Directory Operations | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 46 | 87 | 157 | 6.24 | 1.13 | ||
| PDSF: Ability to run interactively | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 36 | 6.22 | 1.07 | -0.13 | ||
| PDSF SW: Software environment | 4 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 36 | 6.22 | 0.96 | -0.00 | |||
| NETWORK: Remote network performance to/from NERSC (e.g. Seaborg to your home institution) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 98 | 121 | 260 | 6.22 | 0.99 | 0.11 |
| HPSS: Data access time | 5 | 6 | 18 | 54 | 80 | 163 | 6.21 | 0.99 | -0.05 | ||
| EUCLID: Ability to run interactively | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 44 | 6.18 | 1.23 | |||
| PDSF SW: General tools and utilities | 3 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 36 | 6.14 | 0.90 | -0.07 | |||
| PDSF SW: Programming libraries | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 34 | 6.12 | 0.91 | 0.08 | |||
| HOPPER: Ability to run interactively | 1 | 2 | 23 | 19 | 52 | 97 | 194 | 6.11 | 1.14 | 0.49 | |
| FRANKLIN: Overall | 3 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 114 | 98 | 253 | 6.11 | 1.01 | -0.01 | |
| EUCLID: Overall | 7 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 48 | 6.10 | 1.08 | ||||
| PDSF: Overall satisfaction | 2 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 42 | 6.07 | 1.11 | -0.33 | |||
| PDSF: Uptime (availability) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 40 | 6.05 | 1.34 | -0.66 | |
| CARVER: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 29 | 51 | 104 | 6.05 | 1.23 | -0.02 | |
| PDSF SW: STAR | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 25 | 6.04 | 0.93 | 0.52 | |||
| HOPPER: Batch queue structure | 2 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 106 | 102 | 259 | 6.03 | 1.13 | 0.37 |
| FRANKLIN: Uptime (Availability) | 2 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 106 | 90 | 248 | 6.01 | 1.06 | 0.02 | |
| FRANKLIN: Ability to run interactively | 2 | 19 | 24 | 60 | 72 | 177 | 6.00 | 1.12 | 0.06 | ||
| CARVER: Ability to run interactively | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 25 | 40 | 85 | 6.00 | 1.28 | 0.08 | |
| PDSF SW: CHOS | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 29 | 6.00 | 1.04 | 0.07 | |||
| PDSF SW: Performance and debugging tools | 4 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 33 | 6.00 | 0.90 | -0.25 | |||
| HOPPER: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 1 | 5 | 26 | 28 | 83 | 97 | 240 | 5.99 | 1.10 | 0.12 | |
| EUCLID: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 1 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 45 | 5.98 | 1.20 | |||
| DIRAC: Ability to run interactively | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 32 | 5.97 | 1.45 | |||
| DIRAC: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 8 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 28 | 5.93 | 1.33 | ||||
| FRANKLIN: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 2 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 29 | 76 | 83 | 221 | 5.90 | 1.19 | -0.06 |
| FRANKLIN: Batch queue structure | 3 | 5 | 20 | 34 | 104 | 78 | 244 | 5.89 | 1.13 | 0.18 | |
| HOPPER: Batch wait time | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 44 | 114 | 77 | 260 | 5.86 | 1.13 | 0.67 |
| CARVER: Batch queue structure | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 42 | 37 | 113 | 5.80 | 1.19 | -0.12 | |
| PDSF SW: Applications software | 6 | 17 | 6 | 29 | 5.79 | 1.01 | -0.17 | ||||
| HPSS: User interface (hsi, pftp, ftp) | 5 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 42 | 79 | 172 | 5.77 | 1.56 | -0.17 | |
| PDSF: Disk configuration and I/O performance | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 37 | 5.76 | 1.34 | -0.50 | |
| FRANKLIN: Batch wait time | 5 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 66 | 88 | 43 | 247 | 5.34 | 1.35 | 0.46 |
| CARVER: Batch wait time | 8 | 10 | 18 | 17 | 42 | 19 | 114 | 5.16 | 1.47 | -0.6 | |
