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SDSC S R B survey. Compiled by Arun Jagatheesan SDSC SRB Team. Survey. Total respondents = 70 SRB Team (in the respondents) = 4 GriPhyN NVO NSDL SCEC People Arun bribed to participate = 0 The following users participated in our survey….
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SDSC S R B survey Compiled by Arun Jagatheesan SDSC SRB Team
Survey • Total respondents = 70 • SRB Team (in the respondents) = 4 • GriPhyN • NVO • NSDL • SCEC • People Arun bribed to participate = 0 • The following users participated in our survey…
SDSC SRB User Community (Major US) • National Science Digital Library (NSDL) • National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) • ROADNet • Purdue University • SCCOOS, USA • Scientific Rich Media Archive • Salk Institute • Strand Map Service, USA • UC Berkeley Library • UCSD Library • University of Houston • Persistent Archives Test bed • University of Wisconsin, Madison • WebBase, Stanford University • Yale University Library • BaBar, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) • California Digital Library (CDL) • Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) • CVC, Visualization Portal • LDC Data Storage • NIH Bio Informatics Research Network (BIRN) • NSF Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) • National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) • National Aeronautics and Space Administration Centers (NASA) • National Virtual Observatory (NVO) • Npackage, NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
Academia Sinica, Taiwan Australian National University Bio-Lab, University of Genoa, Italy Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), UK CC-IN2P3, France Distributed Framework, Singapore Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME), UK eMinerals Project, UK eScience, Belfast Center Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany High Energy Accelerator Organization, KEK, Japan K* Grid Computing, Korea KEK Computing Center, Japan Lyon, France NorGrid, Norway Nanyang Data Grid, Singapore Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK T-Systems, Germany UK eScience Project, UK UniGrid, Poland UMK, Poland Virtual Laboratory for eScience, Netherlands SDSC SRB User Community
File Count 4 million
Total data brokered by SDSC SRB 358 TB 324 TB 682 TB
Installation Robustness / Bugs MCAT Federation Academic Licensing Version Management Documentation Missing Functionality Other: 26 % 28% 18% 15% 26% 52% 30% Problems Faced (Existing Users) • Slow data rate • User Interfaces • Data Integrity and Recovery
Need more time Installation Documentation Support from SDSC Local SRB development Licensing Will not say Other: 39 % 62% 47% 8% 8% 23% 8% New users (problems) • Still learning how to use
Scommands inQ mySRB Jargon C/C++ API Python Perl Matrix SRB WSDL LUFS/CIFS Matrix gridflows SRB I/O 80% 42% 46% 38% 40% 13% 22% 24% 9% 9% 16% SRB S/W stack used/plan to use
Data Management (replication, copy, organization) Data Transport (bulk move) Logical Resources User defined metadata (MCAT) Container Archives support Zone SRB 88% 68% 38% 50% 23% 39% 32% SRB Features important from users
Conclusion • Thank you gifts to follow • “I moved more than a Terabyte in a data grid and all I get is this lousy T-Shirt” • Our Success and next steps • Users, users, users • Making sure we are ahead of the requirements (R&D, AL,…) • Production Support at SDSC • Community Involvement • Community driven documentation effort • SRB All Hands Meetings