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?
10. Scientific
Sector
Please provide further details
about your organisation in this space that you think may be relevant to
the EUMEDGRID project.
Section B - Experience
with Grid Technologies
11. Have you
heard about and/or used Grid technologies?
12. If you are
not using Grid infrastructure, would your research group benefit from it?
13. Which of
the following best describes you as a Grid user? [For existing users]
Normal
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]
Normal
15. Are you interested
in participating in a national project that involves:
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.
Please provide further
details in the space below:
17. Would access
to a grid infrastructure encourage you to tackle larger or more complex
problems?
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?
Please provide further
details below:
19. If you are
NOT currently using a Grid infrastructure, what kinds of problems do you
plan to solve?
Please provide further
details below:
20. What new
problems will be addressed by your organisation if current computational
constraints were eliminated?
21. What type
of Grid infrastructure would best serve your organisation's application
requirements?
22a. Your existing
applications may be classified as:
22b. What is the time criticality
of your existing applications?
23. The Security
(Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability) of the data of your application(s)
is
24. What is the
amount of storage of your applications?
25. Do you use
parallel applications?
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
(Specify Unix flavour)
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?
28. Which parallel
toolkits do you use?
29. Do you use
any of the following grid enabling technologies?
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?
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
ii. Type
iii. Medium
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
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 EUMEDGRID requirements.
Section F - Training
One of the main objectives
of EUMEDGRID is to provide training on grid computing to organisations in
the Mediterranean region. In this section we would like to know whether
your organisation would like to host EUMEDGRID training at your site (http://www.eumedgrid.org/tutorial.html )
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
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?
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 EUMEDGRID
project in the space below.
37. Please tell us how you found out
about this questionnaire
Search
Engine
Referred
by (If referred
by EUMEDGRID project partner ONLY)
Via
http://www.eumedgrid.org/
Other
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