Computer use by faculty/staff survey form

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Email *

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My name is
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My institution is
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Alabama A&M University

Alabama State Univertsity

Auburn University

Tuskegee University

University of Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham

University of Alabama in Huntsbille

University of South Alabama

My position is
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Faculty

Researcher

Other staff

My principal research area belongs to
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Physical sciences

Social sciences, education

Engineering

Mathematics, computer science

Other

I consider myself a computer
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Novice user

Moderately experience user

Expert

The OS family I use most often is
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Linux

MacOS

Microsoft Windows

My knowledge of command shells can be described as
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Never used one

I am an occasional user

I can write shell scripts in bash

My research software of choice is
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A spreadsheet, web browser

Software with user interface (e.g., Matlab, COMSOL)

Raw code that must be compiled

My skills in low level programming languages (e.g., C++, Fortran) are
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Never wrote such a code myself

Making small modifications to existing code

Active major developer of research codes

My skills in high level languages (e.g., Python, Ruby) are
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Never wrote code myself

Using these languages occasionally, mainly running existing code

Active developer of research codes

I have this much experience with parallel programming
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Heard about, but never tried it myself

Used compiler-based parallelization technologies (e.g., OpenMP)

Used program level parallelization and/or distributed memory (e.g., threads, MPI)

I have this much experience with GPU computing
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Never used it

Worked with high-level tools making use of GPU (e.g., Pytorch)

I am capable of writing CUDA or HIP kernels

I have the following experience with HPC resources

None

Used a single multi-core system interactlvely

Worked in a small cluster environment, familiar with batch processing

Accessed large clusters, familiar with data transfer systems (e.g., Globus)

My primary computation-related field can be best characterized as
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None

Modeling, simulation

Data collection and processing

Computer science, algorithms, AI

My approach to open source research software is

Use mainly proprietory, commercial software

Use mix of close and open source software

Use open source codes almost exclusively

My need for HPC resources are best characterized as
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I do not expect to ever need them

I never used HPC, but would like to in the future

I have access to more resources than I need

The HPC resources available to me meet my current needs

I would benefit from access to more HPC resources than I am using currentluy

I would be interested in volunteering in the following capacity
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Providing computer expertise to help less experienced users

Participating in policy making

Serving as a liason with institutional IT

Mentoring students, using HPC in the classroom

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