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Questionaire For UK HE Sites - Batch Processing Systems

Academic Computing Services , University Of Sheffield

Stuart Herbert (S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk)

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Abstract

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has funded a one-year post to evaluate, and support, batch processing systems for UK Higher Education. It would be of great help if you could complete this questionaire and return it to me, by electronic mail, no later than Monday 24th October.


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Questionaire


About Yourself

  • Are you replying on behalf of:

    site/department/self


General Attitudes

  • Do you use any batch processing systems?

    Monsanto-NQS/CERN-NQS/DQS/SGI 4D-NQS/Sterling NQS/ other (please specify)

  • If not :

    a) Why not?

    no demand/low priority/low resources/cost/other (please specify)

  • If yes :

    a) Which platforms do you use them on?

    IRIX/SunOS/Solaris/AIX/HPUX/ULTRIX/OSF/other (please specify)

    b) How happy are you with your existing batch processing system?

    Happy/unhappy (please explain why)

    c) Do you think that public-domain/freeware systems are good enough?

    Yes/no

    d) If not, how much would you be prepared to pay in total for a commercial system?


Requirements

What features do you want from a batch processing system?

  • Ease of installation

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • Ease of configuration

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • Admin training material

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • User training material

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • Multi-processor support

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • Support for using more than one machine to run jobs on?

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • GUI-based tools for admin?

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand

  • GUI-based tools for users?

    not important/important/very important/okay as things stand


Any Other Comments

Any other comments:

Do you wish to be kept informed of future developments?

Yes/No

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Thank you for your time,

Stuart Herbert, (S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk)



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