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2006 User Survey Results: Respondent Demographics

Number of respondents to the survey: 256

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	17	6.6%
BER	33	12.9%
BES	87	34.0%
FES	25	9.8%
HEP	38	14.8%
NP	53	20.7%
guests	3	1.2%

User Role	Number	Percent
Principal Investigators	54	21.1%
PI Proxies	38	14.8%
Project Managers	8	3.1%
Users	156	60.9%

Respondents by Organization:

Organization Type	Number	Percent
Universities	138	53.9%
DOE Labs	91	35.5%
Industry	20	7.8%
Other Govt Labs	16	6.3%
Organization	Number	Percent
Berkeley Lab	37	14.5%
Oak Ridge	12	4.7%
UC Berkeley	12	4.7%
U. Wisconsin Madison	12	4.7%
Livermore	7	2.7%
Harvard	6	2.3%
Northwestern	6	2.3%
PNNL	6	2.3%
U. Washington	6	2.3%
Argonne	5	2.0%
SLAC	5	2.0%
Tech-X Corp	5	2.0%
Ames Lab	4	1.6%
NREL	4	1.6%
PPPL	4	1.6%
Stanford	4	1.6%
U. Oklahoma	4	2.0%

Organization	Number	Percent
Georgia Tech	3	1.2%
NCAR	3	1.2%
Texas A&M	3	1.2%
UC Irvine	3	1.2%
Vanderbilt	3	1.2%
Auburn Univ	2	0.8%
Cal Tech	2	0.8%
Georgia State	2	0.8%
Huazhong Univ (China)	2	0.8%
J. Inst Nuclear Research (Russia)	2	0.8%
Jefferson Lab	2	0.8%
Kansas State	2	0.8%
LAL IN2P3 (France)	2	0.8%
MIT	2	0.8%
Shanghai Physics (China)	2	0.8%
U. Central Florida	2	0.8%
U. Chicago	2	0.8%
U. Georgia	2	0.8%
UC Davis	2	0.8%
Wayne State	2	0.8%
Other Universities	49	19.1%
Other Gov. Labs	7	2.7%
Other DOE Labs	5	2.0%
Other Industry	4	1.6%

Which NERSC resources do you use?

Resource	Responses	Percent	Num who answered questions on this topic	Percent
IBM SP (Seaborg)	169	66.0%	168	65.6%
NIM	160	62.5%	202	78.9%
NERSC web site (www.nersc.gov)	148	57.8%	211	82.4%
HPSS	110	43.2%	172	67.2%
Jacquard	109	42.6%	88	34.4%
Bassi	107	41.8%	99	38.7%
Consulting services	89	34.8%	199	77.7%
Account support services	85	33.2%	202	78.9%
PDSF	48	18.8%	43	16.8%
DaVinci	30	11.7%	30	11.7%
Off-hours 24x7 Computer and ESnet Operations support	26	10.2%	88	34.3%
Visualization services	9	3.5%	29	11.3%
NGF	8	3.1%	26	10.2%
NERSC CVS server	4	1.6%	24	9.4%
Grid services	3	1.2%	23	9.0%

How long have you used NERSC?

Time	Number	Percent
less than 6 months	31	12.1%
6 months - 3 years	116	45.3%
more than 3 years	109	42.6%

What desktop systems do you use to connect to NERSC?

System	Responses
Unix Total	221
PC Total	130
Mac Total	93
Linux	187
Windows XP	113
OS X	77
Sun Solaris	21
Windows 2000	16
MacOS	15
IBM AIX	7
SGI IRIX	4
HP HPUX	1
Other	3

Web Browser Used to Take Survey:

Browser	Number	Percent
Firefox	119	46.5%
MSIE 6	50	19.5%
Mozilla	42	16.4%
Safari	35	13.7%
Netscape 4	8	3.1%
Opera	2	0.8%

Operating System Used to Take Survey:

OS	Number	Percent
Windows XP	92	35.9%
Linux	80	31.3%
Mac OS X	70	27.3%
SunOS	5	2.0%
Windows 2000	5	2.0%
Windows NT	2	0.8%
FreeBSD	2	0.4%
MacOS	1	0.4%

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