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   2 Scientific software usage in neuroscience research
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   4
   5 This survey should take about five minutes. Immediately after submission you
   6 will be presented with some statistics on previous responses. Please try to
   7 answer as many questions as you can, but don't worry if you cannot answer all
   8 of them. *You need to have javascript enabled in your browser for this survey.*
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  57
  58
  59 Personal background
  60 -------------------
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  63
  64    <table>
  65    <tr class="oddrow">
  66    <td>
  67
  68 Which country are you working in?
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  72    </td><td class="response">
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  75    :file: select_country.inc
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  79    </td></tr><tr><td>
  80
  81 Where are you working?
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  85    </td><td class="response">
  86    <select name="bg_employer" size="1">
  87    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  88    <option value="edu_priv" label="Higher education (privately funded)">Higher education (privately funded)</option>
  89    <option value="edu_pub" label="Higher education (publicly funded)">Higher education (publicly funded)</option>
  90    <option value="research_priv" label="Research institution (privately funded)">Research institution (privately funded)</option>
  91    <option value="research_pub" label="Research institution (publicly funded)">Research institution (publicly funded)</option>
  92    <option value="company" label="Company">Company</option>
  93    </select>
  94    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
  95
  96 What is your position?
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 100    </td><td class="response">
 101    <select name="bg_position" size="1">
 102    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 103    <option value="undergrad" label="Undergraduate student">Undergraduate student</option>
 104    <option value="graduate" label="PhD student">PhD student</option>
 105    <option value="postdoc" label="Postdoc">Postdoc</option>
 106    <option value="professor" label="Professor/Supervisor">Professor/Supervisor</option>
 107    <option value="ra" label="Research assistant">Research assistant</option>
 108    <option value="researcher" label="Other researcher">Other researcher</option>
 109    <option value="sysadmin" label="System administrator">System administrator</option>
 110    </select>
 111    </td></tr><tr><td>
 112
 113 What type of data are you working with? Please check all items that apply.
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 116
 117    </td><td class="response">
 118    <table><tr><td>
 119    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="behav" />Behavioral<br />
 120    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="mri" />MRI/fMRI/DTI<br />
 121    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="meeg" />EEG/MEG<br />
 122    </td><td>
 123    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 124    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="ephys" />Electrophysiology<br />
 125    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="spectro" />Microspectroscopy<br />
 126    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="otherdm" />
 127    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 128    </td></tr></table>
 129    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 130
 131 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 134
 135    </td><td class="response">
 136    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 137    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 138    </td>
 139    </tr>
 140    </table>
 141
 142 Personal scientific software environment
 143 ----------------------------------------
 144
 145 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 146 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 147 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 148 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 149 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 150 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 151 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 152 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 153 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
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 156
 157    <table>
 158    <tr class="oddrow">
 159    <td>
 160
 161 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 162 environment as opposed to any other environment that you migh have access to?
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 165
 166    </td><td class="response">
 167    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 168    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 169    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 170    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 171    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 172    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 173    </select>
 174    </td></tr><tr><td>
 175
 176 What type of hardware are you using?
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 179
 180    </td><td class="response">
 181    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 182    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 183    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 184    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 185    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 186    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 187    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 188    </select>
 189    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 190
 191 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 194
 195    </td><td class="response">
 196    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
 197
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 199    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 201 .. raw:: html
 202
 203    </select>
 204    </td></tr><tr><td>
 205
 206 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 207 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 208 installing and updating scientific software.
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 211
 212    </td><td class="response">
 213    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 214    </td>
 215    </tr>
 216    </table>
 217
 218 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 219
 220 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 223
 224    <table>
 225    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 226
 227 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
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 230
 231    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 232    <td class="task">
 233
 234 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
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 237
 238    </td><td class="response">
 239    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 240    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 241    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 242    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 243    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 244
 245
 246 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
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 249
 250    </td><td class="response">
 251    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 252    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 253    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 254    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 255    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 256
 257
 258 ... of the availibility of commercial support
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 261
 262    </td><td class="response">
 263    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 264    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 265    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 266    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 267    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 268
 269
 270 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
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 273
 274    </td><td class="response">
 275    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 276    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 277    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 278    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 279    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 280
 281
 282 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 283
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 285
 286    </td><td class="response">
 287    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 288    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 289    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 290    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 291    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 292
 293
 294 ... I rely on a particular application that only runs in this environment
 295
 296 .. raw:: html
 297
 298    </td><td class="response">
 299    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 300    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 301    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 302    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 303    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 304
 305
 306 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
 307
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 309
 310    </td><td class="response">
 311    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 312    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 313    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 314    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 315    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 316
 317
 318 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
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 320 .. raw:: html
 321
 322    </td><td class="response">
 323    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 324    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 325    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 326    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 327    </td>
 328    </tr>
 329    </table>
 330
 331
 332 Managed scientific software environment
 333 ---------------------------------------
 334
 335 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 336 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 337 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 338 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 339 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 340 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 341 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 342 purposes.
 343
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 347    <table class="questionaire">
 348    <tr class="oddrow">
 349    <td>
 350
 351 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 352 activities?
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 355
 356    </td><td class="response">
 357    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 358    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 359    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 360    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 361    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 362    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 363    </select>
 364    </td></tr><tr><td>
 365
 366 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 369
 370    </td><td class="response">
 371    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 372    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 373    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 374    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 375    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 376    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 377    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 378    </select>
 379    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 380
 381
 382 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 384 .. raw:: html
 385
 386    </td><td class="response">
 387    <select name="man_os" size="1">
 388
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 390    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 392 .. raw:: html
 393
 394    </select>
 395    </td>
 396    </tr>
 397    </table>
 398
 399 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 400
 401 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 404
 405    <table>
 406    <tr class="oddrow">
 407    <td class="task">
 408
 409 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
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 411 .. raw:: html
 412
 413    </td><td class="response">
 414    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 415    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 416    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 417    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 418    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 419
 420 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 421 a timely fashion
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 423 .. raw:: html
 424
 425    </td><td class="response">
 426    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 427    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 428    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 429    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 430    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 431
 432 There are always enough licenses for essential commerical software tools
 433
 434 .. raw:: html
 435
 436    </td><td class="response">
 437    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 438    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 439    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 440    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 441    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 442
 443 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
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 446
 447    </td><td class="response">
 448    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 449    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 450    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 451    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 452    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 453
 454
 455 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 456 environment myself
 457
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 459
 460    </td><td class="response">
 461    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 462    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 463    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 464    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 465    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 466
 467 .. raw:: html
 468
 469    </td>
 470    </tr>
 471    </table>
 472
 473 Virtualization
 474 --------------
 475
 476 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 477 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 478 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 479 systems on one machine at the same time.
 480
 481 .. raw:: html
 482
 483    <table>
 484    <tr class="oddrow">
 485    <td class="task">
 486
 487 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in a virtual
 488 environment as opposed to any other environment?
 489
 490 .. raw:: html
 491
 492    </td><td class="response">
 493    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 494    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 495    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 496    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 497    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 498    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 499    </select>
 500    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 501
 502 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 503
 504 .. raw:: html
 505
 506    </td><td class="response">
 507    <table><tr><td>
 508    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 509    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 510    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 511    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 512    </td><td>
 513    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 514    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 515    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 516    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="othervm" />
 517    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 518    </td></tr></table>
 519    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 520
 521 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 522
 523 .. raw:: html
 524
 525    </td><td class="response">
 526    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 527
 528 .. raw:: html
 529    :file: select_os_options.inc
 530
 531 .. raw:: html
 532
 533    </select>
 534    </td></tr><tr><td>
 535
 536 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 537
 538 .. raw:: html
 539
 540    </td><td class="response">
 541    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 542
 543 .. raw:: html
 544    :file: select_os_options.inc
 545
 546 .. raw:: html
 547
 548    </select>
 549    </td></tr></table>
 550
 551 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 552
 553 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 554 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 555
 556 .. raw:: html
 557
 558    <table>
 559    <tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 560
 561 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 562
 563 .. raw:: html
 564
 565    </td><td class="response">
 566    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 567    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 568    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 569    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 570    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 571
 572 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 573
 574 .. raw:: html
 575
 576    </td><td class="response">
 577    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 578    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 579    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 580    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 581    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 582
 583
 584 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 585 machines
 586
 587 .. raw:: html
 588
 589    </td><td class="response">
 590    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 591    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 592    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 593    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 594    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 595
 596 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 597 research
 598
 599 .. raw:: html
 600
 601    </td><td class="response">
 602    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 603    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 604    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 605    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 606    </td>
 607    </tr>
 608    </table>
 609
 610
 611 Resources for scientific software
 612 ---------------------------------
 613
 614 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 615 check all items that apply
 616
 617 .. raw:: html
 618
 619    <table class="questionaire">
 620    <tr class="oddrow">
 621    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 622
 623 Directly from vendor or project website
 624
 625 .. raw:: html
 626
 627    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 628
 629 Retailer
 630
 631 .. raw:: html
 632
 633    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 634
 635 Comes with the operating system
 636
 637 .. raw:: html
 638
 639    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 640
 641 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 642
 643 .. raw:: html
 644
 645    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 646
 647 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 648
 649 .. raw:: html
 650
 651    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 652
 653 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 654
 655 .. raw:: html
 656
 657    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 658
 659 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 660
 661 .. raw:: html
 662
 663    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 664
 665 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 666
 667 .. raw:: html
 668
 669    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 670
 671 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 672
 673 .. raw:: html
 674
 675    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value=macports"" /></td><td>
 676
 677 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 678
 679 .. raw:: html
 680
 681    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 682
 683 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 684
 685 .. raw:: html
 686
 687    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="neurodebian" /></td><td>
 688
 689 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 690
 691 .. raw:: html
 692
 693    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 694
 695 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 696
 697 .. raw:: html
 698
 699    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 700
 701 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 702
 703 .. raw:: html
 704
 705    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 706
 707 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 708
 709 .. raw:: html
 710
 711    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 712
 713 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 714
 715 .. raw:: html
 716
 717    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="otherres" /></td><td>
 718    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 719    </td></tr></table>
 720
 721 Software selection
 722 ------------------
 723
 724 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 725
 726 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 727 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 728
 729 .. raw:: html
 730
 731    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 732    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 733    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 734    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 735    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 736    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 738    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 739    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 740    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 741    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 742    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 743    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 744    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 745    </tr><tr>
 746    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 747    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 748    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 749    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 750    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 751    </tr></table>
 752
 753 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 754 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 755
 756 .. raw:: html
 757
 758    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 759    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 760    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 761    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 762    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 763    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 764    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 765    </tr></table>
 766
 767 Imaging
 768 ~~~~~~~
 769
 770 .. raw:: html
 771
 772    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 773    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 774    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 775    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 776    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 777    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 778    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 779    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 780    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 782    </tr><tr>
 783    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 784    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 785    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 787    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 788    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 789    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 790    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 792    </tr><tr>
 793    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 794    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 795    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 797    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 798    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 799    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 800    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 802    </tr><tr>
 803    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 804    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 805    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 806    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 807    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 808    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 809    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 810    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 811    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 812    </tr><tr>
 813    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 814    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 815    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 816    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 817    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 818    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 819    </tr></table>
 820
 821 Data management
 822 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 823
 824 .. raw:: html
 825
 826    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 827    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 828    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 829    </tr></table>
 830
 831 Neural systems modeling
 832 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 833
 834 .. raw:: html
 835
 836    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 837    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 838    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 839    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 840    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 841    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 842    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="genesis" />Genesis</td>
 843    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 844    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 845    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 846    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 847    </tr></table>
 848
 849 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 850 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 851
 852 .. raw:: html
 853
 854    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 855    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 856    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronus</td>
 859    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 860    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 861    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 862    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 863    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 864    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 865    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 866    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 867    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 868    </tr><tr>
 869    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 870    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 871    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 872    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />?Trellis-neuro</td>
 873    </tr></table>
 874
 875 Brain-computer interface
 876 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 877
 878 .. raw:: html
 879
 880    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 881    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 882    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 883    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 884    </tr></table>
 885
 886 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 887 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 888
 889 .. raw:: html
 890
 891    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 892    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 893    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 894    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 895    </tr></table>
 896
 897 Real-time solutions
 898 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 899
 900 .. raw:: html
 901
 902    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 903    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 904    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 905    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 906    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 907    </tr></table>
 908
 909 Psychophysics/Experiment control
 910 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 911
 912 .. raw:: html
 913
 914    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 915    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 916    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 917    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 918    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 919    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 920    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 921    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 922    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 923    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 924    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 925    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 926    </tr></table>
 927
 928 Other
 929 ~~~~~
 930
 931 .. raw:: html
 932
 933    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 934    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="othersw" />
 935    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 936    </tr></table>
 937
 938 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 939
 940 .. raw:: html
 941
 942    <input id="submit_button" value="Submit survey" type="submit">
 943    <div id="server_response"></div>
 944    </form>
 945
 946
 947