FY 2001 User Survey Results: User Information


Number of responses to the survey: 237


Respondents by DOE Office and User Role:

Office Number Percent
ASCR18 8
BER37 16
BES69 29
FES38 16
HENP70 30
guests5 2
User Role Number Percent
Principal Investigators 46 19
Repo Managers 49 21
Users 141 60
DOE Managers 1 -


Respondents by Organization:

Org Type Number Percent
Universities 134 57
DOE Labs 92 39
Industry 5 2
Other Govt Labs 3 1
Private Labs 2 -
DOE 1 -
Organization Number Percent
Berkeley Lab 36 15
UC Berkeley 28 12
Livermore 14 6
Argonne 7 3
Brookhaven 7 3
PPPL 6 3
Oak Ridge 5 2
PNNL 5 2
Los Alamos 4 2
U. Maryland 4 2
Organization Number
Florida State 3
NREL 3
New York Univ 3
Ohio State 3
U Arizona 3
U Colorado 3
U Georgia 3
U Michigan 3
U Montana 3
U Washington 3
UCLA 3
Vanderbilt 3
other universities 69
other gvt labs 8
industry 5
private labs 2
DOE 1


Which NERSC resources do you use?

ResourceNo. of
Responses		 Responses to
this Section
Later in Survey
T3E12092
SP11584
HPSS94149
PVP7669
NIM74159
Consulting70177
HPCF Website57185
Account Support50158
PDSF19-
Computer Operations and Network Support14 -
Newton815
Escher813
Alvarez2-
FTG PC cluster1-


How long have you used NERSC?

TimeNumber Percent
6 months or less 51 22
6 months - 3 years 92 40
more than 3 years 87 38


What desktop systems do you use to connect to NERSC?:

Operating System TypeNumber
Unix309
PC114
MAC40
Other   3
Individual SystemsNumber
UNIX-linux134
UNIX-solaris73
PC-win200062
PC-win9841
UNIX-irix37
MAC-macos33
UNIX-tru6421
Individual SystemsNumber
UNIX-aix18
UNIX-hpux15
UNIX-other10
PC-win9510
MAC-OSX7
PC-OS/21
Digital Alpha1
Open VMS1
PalmOS1
Digital UNIX1
NCD X terminal1

Web Browser Used to Take Survey:

BrowserNumberPercent
Netscape 416770.8
MS Internet Explorer 54418.6
Mozilla10 4.2
MS Internet Explorer 65 2.1
Netscape 64 1.7
MS Internet Explorer 420.8
Konqueror20.8
Netscape 31 0.4
Opera 51 0.4


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