NERSC 1998 User Survey Results - Summary

Question 16. Comments about our web pages (all responses here)

NERSC responses are in bold.

7 in general, good
6 don't use (much)
5 batch info needs improvement;
want to understand queueing algorithm and policies;
interpret codes from qstat and cqstatl;
online tutorial for running batch confusing;
hard to find info on how to submit runs - like max memory sizes for different queues;
hard to find sample scripts)
3 hard to navigate and search;
have smaller, more manageable parts;
info needs to be better organized
[New website organization by December 1998; new search engine by January 1999]
2 NERSC home page graphic too big [ A new home page is coming soon.]
1 publicize website [ The welcome email we send to new users now does that.]
1 email whatsnew to all users [We will use email a lot more in FY99.]
1 provide better examples on multiple processor environment; show hot to clean environment upon termination
1 online tutorial for cft77 to f90 confusing
1 errors in C++ info
1 T3E status/downtime is posted too late
1 software pages need improving
1 hardware pages good
1 not useful
1 getting started pages good
1 info not always up-to-date
1 need revision dates [We are in the process of implementing these.]
1 Cray manuals take a long time to load

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