NERSC FY 1999 User Survey Results: All Satisfaction Questions and FY 1998 to FY 1999 Changes

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SatisfactionValue
Very Satisfied7
Mostly Satisfied6
Somewhat Satisfied5
Neutral4
Somewhat Dissatisfied3
Mostly Dissatisfied2
Very Dissatisfied1

How Satisfied are you?

Topic Satisfaction
No. of ResponsesAvgerage
Consulting: Timely response 134 6.64
Consulting overall 154 6.58
Consulting: Quality of technical advice 134 6.52
HPSS: Reliability 81 6.46
Consulting: Followup 106 6.43
Account support 136 6.39
HPSS: Uptime 81 6.33
PVP: Uptime 93 6.29
Consulting: Response to special requests 103 6.28
Account support: Ease of obtaining account info 124 6.26
T3E: Uptime 93 6.26
Overall satisfaction with NERSC 176 6.25
Web: Accuracy 94 6.22
Training: classes (attendees) 21 6.19
Software: Programming Libraries 50 6.18
Training: Online Tutorials 40 6.17
Network connectivity 143 6.17
T3E: Overall 64 6.17
Account support: Ease of modifying account info 124 6.15
Software: User Environment 68 6.12
Software: Fortran Compilers 68 6.12
HPSS: Overall 69 6.12
Web: Getting Started Guide 73 6.08
Mass storage overall 120 6.06
HPSS: User interface 72 6.06
Web: Timeliness 90 5.99
Web: T3E Section 72 5.99
Available software 129 5.99
Available computing hardware 138 5.96
Training: Online class slides 19 5.95
Web: NERSC-specific info 72 5.93
Software: General tools and utilities 44 5.90
HPSS: Performance 73 5.90
Software maintenance and configuration 114 5.89
HPCF web site overall 134 5.87
Allocations process 118 5.87
Web: File Storage Section 66 5.82
Software: C/C++ Compilers 40 5.81
Training: Teleconference lectures 9 5.78
Software: Bug resolution 34 5.77
Software: Local documentation 52 5.76
Web: Programming Info 86 5.74
Software: Accounting tools 47 5.73
Hardware management and configuration 121 5.71
Web: Ease of navigation 117 5.70
Training: Streaming AV 10 5.70
Software: Application software 33 5.69
Web: Searching 83 5.69
Web: PVP Section 55 5.69
HPSS: Response Time 75 5.68
T3E: Ability to run interactively 85 5.60
PVP: Disk configuration and I/O performance 93 5.56
T3E: Batch queue structure 81 5.47
Software documentation 117 5.46
Software: Performance and Debugging Tools 49 5.45
Visualization Server: Escher 11 5.45
Software: Vendor Documentation 37 5.26
Math Server: Newton 12 5.25
T3E: Disk configuration and I/O performance 71 5.23
Web-based training 69 5.19
PVP: Ability to run interactively 68 5.18
PVP: Overall 58 5.05
T3E: Batch wait time 71 5.04
PVP: Batch queue structure 60 5.03
Training classes (all responses) 59 4.85
Visualization services 574.37
PVP: Batch wait time 62 3.95

FY 1998 to FY 1999 Changes

The following is a comparison for questions common to the FY98 and FY99 user surveys.

TopicFY99 SatisfactionFY98 SatisfactionChange
Allocations process 5.874.60+1.27
HPSS: User Interface 6.064.88+1.18
HPSS: Overall 6.125.09+1.03
T3E: Overall 6.175.20+0.97
T3E: Batch Queue Structure 5.474.51+0.96
HPSS: Reliability 6.465.51+0.95
HPSS: Uptime 6.335.39+0.94
Mass Storage overall 6.065.13+0.93
Consulting: Followup 6.435.57+0.86
Overall Satisfaction 6.255.43+0.82
Account Support 6.395.67+0.72
Web: File Storage Section 5.825.10+0.72
Consulting overall 6.585.87+0.71
T3E: Uptime 6.265.58+0.68
Consulting: Quality of technical advice 6.525.88+0.64
T3E: Batch Wait Time 5.044.43+0.61
PVP: Uptime 6.295.69+0.60
Web: Getting Started Guide 6.085.54+0.54
Web: T3E Section 5.995.48+0.51
Network Connectivity 6.175.70+0.47
Web: PVP Section 5.695.69+0.35
HPSS: Performance 5.905.46+0.44
HPSS: Response Time 5.685.29+0.39
HPCF Website 5.875.54+0.33
PVP: Batch Queue Structure 5.034.85+0.18
PVP: Overall 5.054.92+0.13
PVP: Batch Wait Time 3.954.79-0.84