Dear friends:
Further to my email below, we have set up a Web survey to make it easier for
you to provide this information.
See: https://strategy.wufoo.com/forms/globus-toolkit-user-survey
It will be most helpful to us if you can reply by July 7.
Many thanks,
Ian.
On Jun 24, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> We are preparing a proposal to the National Science Foundation to provide
> continued support for the Globus Toolkit (GT): specifically, for the GRAM,
> GridFTP, Integrated Information Service, Grid Security Infrastructure, and
> jGlobus components.
>
> Our success will depend in part on our ability to get NSF researchers and
> educators to communicate to their program managers the importance of this
> technology for their work. In the absence of such communications, NSF will
> conclude that Globus software isn't that important.
>
> We know that there are many users out there. For example, just in the last 24
> hours, GridFTP servers with usage reporting enabled reported 17M transfers,
> totaling 0.5 PB (that's an average of 200 files/sec and 6 GB/sec). But we
> need to know *who*, *what*, and *why* for this usage--and for the usage of
> other components.
>
> Thus, we would like to request your help as follows:
>
> 1) If you an NSF-supported researcher or educator who uses GT in your work,
> please:
>
> a) tell us how and why it is important to you
>
> b) tell us what improvements and enhancements will be most important to you
>
> c) let us know if you are prepared to contact your NSF program manager to
> tell them these things, and who that would be
>
> Note: While we welcome detail and completeness, just a few words on these
> topics will be immensely useful
>
> 2) If you are a non-NSF-supported researcher or educator (in the US or
> elsewhere) who uses GT in the work, please:
>
> a) tell us how and why it is important to you
>
> b) tell us what improvements and enhancements will be most important to you
>
> c) tell us who supports your work
>
> Regards -- Ian.
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