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We are investigating the use of conversational AI techniques to improve the productivity of HPC users by using common development HPC tools -- including job schedulers, profilers, debuggers, and MPI libraries. Our vision is to design and develop conversational agents -- like Siri or Alexa -- for HPC tools that assist users through voice and text (in plain English) inputs. We have named this agent CAI (Conversational AI Interface) for HPC.

The goal of this survey is to understand the needs of valuable members of the HPC community (i.e. you) and incorporate feedback into the design of our proposed CAI agent.

We anticipate that CAI will allow HPC users to perform their tasks -- such as submitting jobs, running applications, and installing software packages -- by speaking or typing their commands to these tools instead of only relying on existing CLI/GUI interfaces. Note that the conversational interfaces will be provided in addition to existing interaction through CLI/GUI interfaces.