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. > > > > > >
