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Survey of Communities
This assessment questionnaire should be filled by communities or individuals looking at potentially becoming an EELA collaborator or member.
Besides providing the relevant community information, it aims at gathering inputs on the adoption of distributed and grid computing technologies for e-Science, especially in Latin America. Moreover, it will be an important tool for future deployment of sustainable infrastructures.
Interested communities are invited to contact both the EELA Management:
teb@eu-eela.org
and the EELA Work Package 4 Managers:
claudio.cherubino@ct.infn.it
,
leandro.ciuffo@ct.infn.it
This questionnaire is also available in
spanish
This questionnaire is also available in
portuguese
Results are available
here
Plots are available
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Section A - GENERAL
1. Organisation/Institution
2. Department
3. Address
4. Country
5. Full Name (Title, Name, Surname) of the Person filling in this questionnaire
6. Position
7. e-mail
8. Telephone
9. Approximately how many researchers work in your organisation?
1-10
11-50
51-100
101-250
250+
10. Scientific Sector
Networking/IT
High-Energy Physics
Geographical/Environmental
Biomedical
Engineering
Other
Please provide further details about your organisation in this space that you think may be relevant to the EELA project.
Section B - Experience with Grid Technologies
11. Have you heard about and/or used Grid technologies?
Heard about but not used
Heard about and used
Not heard about
12. If you are not using Grid infrastructure, would your research group benefit from it?
Yes
Do not know
No
13. Which of the following best describes you as a Grid user? [For existing users]
Developer (Advanced)
Normal (Average)
Novice User (Basic)
14. Which of the following definitions seems most appropriate to your use of the Grid and the applications you would execute? [For potential new users]
Developer (Advanced)
Normal (Average)
Novice User (Basic)
15. Are you interested in participating in a national project that involves:
Creation and maintenance of local Grid site in your institution
Development – adaptation of software
Other
16. Is there a National Grid Initiative in your country? If yes, please give a description (or provide a URL) of the initiative (including its purpose) plus a list of all the participating organizations.
I do not know
No
Yes, in Progress
Yes, fully functional
Please provide further details in the space below:
17. Would access to a grid infrastructure encourage you to tackle larger or more complex problems?
Yes
Do not know
No
Please provide further details about your experience with grid technologies in this space:
Section C - Applications
18. If you are using a Grid infrastructure, what kinds of problems do you try to solve?
High Energy Physics (HEP)
Biomedicine
Earth Science
Computational Chemistry
Astronomy
Geophysics
Financial Simulation
Other
Please provide further details below:
19. If you are NOT currently using a Grid infrastructure, what kinds of problems do you plan to solve?
High Energy Physics (HEP)
Biomedicine
Earth Science
Computational Chemistry
Astronomy
Geophysics
Financial Simulation
Other
Please provide further details below:
20. What new problems will be addressed by your organisation if current computational constraints were eliminated?
Scaled Up Versions of Current Problems
A new domain area of Problems
Other
21. What type of Grid infrastructure would best serve your organisation's application requirements?
No geographical restrictions
One that serves researchers in similar work
One that only worked at a national level
One that only worked at a local institutional level
One that worked at a local departmental level
One restricted to exclusively to my group
Do not know
22a. Your existing applications may be classified as:
CPU-Intensive
Data-Intensive
Virtual Collaboration Environment
Instrument Control
Interactive
Other
22b. What is the time criticality of your existing applications?
Time Critical
Not Time Critical
23. The Security (Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability) of the data of your application(s) is
Required
Optional
Not Required
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
24. What is the amount of storage of your applications?
<1GB
>=1GB & <10GB
>=10GB & <100GB
>=100GB & <1TB
>=1TB
25. Do you use parallel applications?
Yes
No
Please provide further details about your existing applications in this space:
Section D - Software
26. What type(s) of Operating System(s) are you mainly using for processing / simulation / problem solving tasks
MS Windows
Unix/Linux
(Specify Unix flavour)
Other
Please provide further details about your OS (such as whether you have a heterogeneous environment, different OS versions, different UNIX flavours, etc.) in the space below:
Do you have experience installing Scientific Linux?
No
Yes Please specify:
27. Which job schedulers do you make use of?
Condor
LSF
PBS
Sun Grid Engine
Other
28. Which parallel toolkits do you use?
MPI
OpenMP
PVM
Other
29. Do you use any of the following grid enabling technologies?
ARC
Cactus
Glite version
Globus Toolkit
Java CoG
Java Grid
Jini
Legion
LCG
LCG-2
OSG
Nimrod
Unicore
Other
Please provide further details about the grid technologies that you have experience with in the space below:
30. Are your systems installed behind a firewall?
Yes
No
Do not know
Please provide further details about your existing software used on your existing clusters in this space:
Section E - Hardware
31. Please specify your existing hardware infrastructure:
a. Network Connections used on your cluster:
i. Speed
10Mbps
100Mbps
155Mbps
1Gbps
2Gbps
10Gbps
Other
ii. Type
Ethernet
ATM
Myrinet
Other
iii. Medium
Copper
Fiber
Other
b. Internet connectivity bandwidth:
i. Downstream
kbps
ii. Upstream
kbps
iii. Total (If Downstream/Upstream is not known please fill in the total bandwidth here)
kbps
c. Memory (RAM) Storage (Average GB per Node)
GB
d. Total Hard Disk Storage (GB)
GB
e. CPU Architecture/s
Sparc
X86 - 32 bit
X86 - 64 bit
Power PC
DEC Alpha
MIPS
Other
f. CPU model/s
g. CPU Speed (MHz)
MHz
h. Number of CPUs per SMP Node
i. Total Nodes in Cluster
j. Other hardware infrastructure (tape drives, UPS, etc.):
32. What are your plans to extend/upgrade the infrastructure in the near future?
a. Network
b. Storage
c. CPU
d. Software
Please provide further details about the hardware setup used on your existing cluster(s) in this space. In particular describe what proportion of your hardware would be available to cater for EELA requirements.
Section F - Training
One of the main objectives of EELA is to provide training on grid computing to organisations in the Latin America region. In this section we would like to know whether your organisation would like to host EELA training at your site and whether you have the adequate facilities in terms of PCs, Internet connectivity, etc.
33. Local training facilities:
Number of rooms
Number of PCs per room
Video Projector + Big Screen
Sound System
Ethernet/Fast Ethernet
WiFi (WLAN)
Internet connectivity. Speed
Mbps
34. Local collaborative facilities:
Video Conferencing: Details
(MCU, Access Grid, VRVS, etc.)
Teleconferencing: Details
Other: Specify
35. Have you ever participated to grid training events and conferences?:
Yes
No
Please list venue, number of people attending, date, name of event, URL, etc.
Section G - Other Feedback
36. Kindly provide any additional feedback that you think would be relevant to the EELA project in the space below.
37. Please tell us how you found out about this questionnaire:
Search Engine
Referred by
Via http://www.eu-eela.org/
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