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.
