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 EUChinaGRID 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:
Confidentiality
Required Optional Not Required
Integrity
Required Optional Not Required
Availability
Required Optional Not Required

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 EUChinaGRID requirements.

Section F - Training
One of the main objectives of EUChinaGRID is to provide training on grid computing to organisations involved in the project. In this section we would like to know whether your organisation would like to host EUChinaGRID training at your site (http://www.euchinagrid.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   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 EUChinaGRID project in the space below.


37. Please tell us how you found out about this questionnaire:
Search Engine  

Referred by  

Via http://www.euchinagrid.org/

Other (please explain)