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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.
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  49
  50 Personal background
  51 -------------------
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  54
  55    <table>
  56    <tr class="oddrow">
  57    <td>
  58
  59 Which country are you working in?
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  62
  63    </td><td class="response">
  64
  65 .. raw:: html
  66    :file: select_country.inc
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  68 .. raw:: html
  69
  70    </td></tr><tr><td>
  71
  72 Where are you working?
  73
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  75
  76    </td><td class="response">
  77    <select name="bg_employer" size="1">
  78    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  79    <option value="edu_priv" label="Higher education (privately funded)">Higher education (privately funded)</option>
  80    <option value="edu_pub" label="Higher education (publicly funded)">Higher education (publicly funded)</option>
  81    <option value="research_priv" label="Research institution (privately funded)">Research institution (privately funded)</option>
  82    <option value="research_pub" label="Research institution (publicly funded)">Research institution (publicly funded)</option>
  83    <option value="company" label="Company">Company</option>
  84    </select>
  85    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
  86
  87 What is your position?
  88
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  90
  91    </td><td class="response">
  92    <select name="bg_position" size="1">
  93    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  94    <option value="undergrad" label="Undergraduate student">Undergraduate student</option>
  95    <option value="graduate" label="PhD student">PhD student</option>
  96    <option value="postdoc" label="Postdoc">Postdoc</option>
  97    <option value="professor" label="Professor/Supervisor">Professor/Supervisor</option>
  98    <option value="ra" label="Research assistant">Research assistant</option>
  99    <option value="researcher" label="Other researcher">Other researcher</option>
 100    <option value="sysadmin" label="System administrator">System administrator</option>
 101    </select>
 102    </td></tr><tr><td>
 103
 104 What type of data are you working with? Please check all items that apply.
 105
 106 .. raw:: html
 107
 108    </td><td class="response">
 109    <table><tr><td>
 110    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="behav" />Behavioral<br />
 111    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="mri" />MRI/fMRI/DTI<br />
 112    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="meeg" />EEG/MEG<br />
 113    </td><td>
 114    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 115    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="ephys" />Electrophysiology<br />
 116    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="spectro" />Microspectroscopy<br />
 117    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="other" />
 118    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 119    </td></tr></table>
 120    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 121
 122 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 125
 126    </td><td class="response">
 127    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 128    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 129    </td>
 130    </tr>
 131    </table>
 132
 133 Personal scientific software environment
 134 ----------------------------------------
 135
 136 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 137 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 138 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 139 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 140 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 141 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 142 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 143 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 144 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
 145
 146 .. raw:: html
 147
 148    <table>
 149    <tr class="oddrow">
 150    <td>
 151
 152 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 153 environment as opposed to any other environment that you migh have access to?
 154
 155 .. raw:: html
 156
 157    </td><td class="response">
 158    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 159    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 160    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 161    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 162    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 163    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 164    </select>
 165    </td></tr><tr><td>
 166
 167 What type of hardware are you using?
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 170
 171    </td><td class="response">
 172    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 173    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 174    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 175    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 176    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 177    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 178    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 179    </select>
 180    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 181
 182 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 184 .. raw:: html
 185
 186    </td><td class="response">
 187    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
 188
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 190    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 192 .. raw:: html
 193
 194    </select>
 195    </td></tr><tr><td>
 196
 197 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 198 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 199 installing and updating scientific software.
 200
 201 .. raw:: html
 202
 203    </td><td class="response">
 204    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 205    </td>
 206    </tr>
 207    </table>
 208
 209 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 210
 211 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 214
 215    <table>
 216    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 217
 218 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
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 221
 222    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 223    <td class="task">
 224
 225 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
 226
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 228
 229    </td><td class="response">
 230    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 231    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 232    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 233    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 234    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 235
 236
 237 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
 238
 239 .. raw:: html
 240
 241    </td><td class="response">
 242    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 243    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 244    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 245    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 246    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 247
 248
 249 ... of the availibility of commercial support
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 252
 253    </td><td class="response">
 254    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 255    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 256    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 257    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 258    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 259
 260
 261 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
 262
 263 .. raw:: html
 264
 265    </td><td class="response">
 266    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 267    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 268    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 269    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 270    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 271
 272
 273 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 274
 275 .. raw:: html
 276
 277    </td><td class="response">
 278    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 279    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 280    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 281    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 282    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 283
 284
 285 ... I rely on a particular application that only runs in this environment
 286
 287 .. raw:: html
 288
 289    </td><td class="response">
 290    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 291    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 292    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 293    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 294    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 295
 296
 297 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
 298
 299 .. raw:: html
 300
 301    </td><td class="response">
 302    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 303    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 304    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 305    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 306    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 307
 308
 309 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
 310
 311 .. raw:: html
 312
 313    </td><td class="response">
 314    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 315    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 316    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 317    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 318    </td>
 319    </tr>
 320    </table>
 321
 322
 323 Managed scientific software environment
 324 ---------------------------------------
 325
 326 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 327 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 328 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 329 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 330 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 331 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 332 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 333 purposes.
 334
 335
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 337
 338    <table class="questionaire">
 339    <tr class="oddrow">
 340    <td>
 341
 342 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 343 activities?
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 346
 347    </td><td class="response">
 348    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 349    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 350    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 351    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 352    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 353    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 354    </select>
 355    </td></tr><tr><td>
 356
 357 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 359 .. raw:: html
 360
 361    </td><td class="response">
 362    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 363    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 364    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 365    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 366    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 367    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 368    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 369    </select>
 370    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 371
 372
 373 What operating system is this environment running on?
 374
 375 .. raw:: html
 376
 377    </td><td class="response">
 378    <select name="man_os" size="1">
 379
 380 .. raw:: html
 381    :file: select_os_options.inc
 382
 383 .. raw:: html
 384
 385    </select>
 386    </td>
 387    </tr>
 388    </table>
 389
 390 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 391
 392 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 395
 396    <table>
 397    <tr class="oddrow">
 398    <td class="task">
 399
 400 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
 401
 402 .. raw:: html
 403
 404    </td><td class="response">
 405    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 406    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 407    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 408    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 409    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 410
 411 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 412 a timely fashion
 413
 414 .. raw:: html
 415
 416    </td><td class="response">
 417    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 418    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 419    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 420    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 421    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 422
 423 There are always enough licenses for essential commerical software tools
 424
 425 .. raw:: html
 426
 427    </td><td class="response">
 428    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 429    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 430    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 431    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 432    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 433
 434 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
 435
 436 .. raw:: html
 437
 438    </td><td class="response">
 439    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 440    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 441    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 442    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 443    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 444
 445
 446 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 447 environment myself
 448
 449 .. raw:: html
 450
 451    </td><td class="response">
 452    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 453    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 454    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 455    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 456    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 457
 458 .. raw:: html
 459
 460    </td>
 461    </tr>
 462    </table>
 463
 464 Virtualization
 465 --------------
 466
 467 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 468 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 469 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 470 systems on one machine at the same time.
 471
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 473
 474    <table>
 475    <tr class="oddrow">
 476    <td class="task">
 477
 478 How often do you use virtual machines for your research purposes?
 479
 480 .. raw:: html
 481
 482    </td><td class="response">
 483    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 484    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 485    <option value="never" label="Never">Never</option>
 486    <option value="occasionally" label="Occasionally">Occasionally</option>
 487    <option value="often" label="Often">Often</option>
 488    <option value="always" label="Exclusively">Exclusively</option>
 489    </select><div style="font-size:60%">(skip the remaining questions of this section if "never")</div>
 490    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 491
 492 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 493
 494 .. raw:: html
 495
 496    </td><td class="response">
 497    <table><tr><td>
 498    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 499    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 500    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 501    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 502    </td><td>
 503    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 504    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 505    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 506    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="other" />
 507    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 508    </td></tr></table>
 509    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 510
 511 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 512
 513 .. raw:: html
 514
 515    </td><td class="response">
 516    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 517
 518 .. raw:: html
 519    :file: select_os_options.inc
 520
 521 .. raw:: html
 522
 523    </select>
 524    </td></tr><tr><td>
 525
 526 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 527
 528 .. raw:: html
 529
 530    </td><td class="response">
 531    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 532
 533 .. raw:: html
 534    :file: select_os_options.inc
 535
 536 .. raw:: html
 537
 538    </select>
 539    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">
 540
 541 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 542 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 543
 544 .. raw:: html
 545
 546    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 547
 548 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 549
 550 .. raw:: html
 551
 552    </td><td class="response">
 553    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 554    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 555    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 556    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 557    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 558
 559 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 560
 561 .. raw:: html
 562
 563    </td><td class="response">
 564    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 565    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 566    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 567    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 568    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 569
 570
 571 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 572 machines
 573
 574 .. raw:: html
 575
 576    </td><td class="response">
 577    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 578    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 579    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 580    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 581    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 582
 583 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 584 research
 585
 586 .. raw:: html
 587
 588    </td><td class="response">
 589    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 590    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 591    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 592    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 593    </td>
 594    </tr>
 595    </table>
 596
 597
 598 Resources for scientific software
 599 ---------------------------------
 600
 601 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 602 check all items that apply
 603
 604 .. raw:: html
 605
 606    <table class="questionaire">
 607    <tr class="oddrow">
 608    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 609
 610 Directly from vendor or project website
 611
 612 .. raw:: html
 613
 614    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 615
 616 Retailer
 617
 618 .. raw:: html
 619
 620    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 621
 622 Comes with the operating system
 623
 624 .. raw:: html
 625
 626    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 627
 628 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 629
 630 .. raw:: html
 631
 632    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 633
 634 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 635
 636 .. raw:: html
 637
 638    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 639
 640 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 641
 642 .. raw:: html
 643
 644    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 645
 646 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 647
 648 .. raw:: html
 649
 650    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 651
 652 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 653
 654 .. raw:: html
 655
 656    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 657
 658 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 659
 660 .. raw:: html
 661
 662    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value=macports"" /></td><td>
 663
 664 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 665
 666 .. raw:: html
 667
 668    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 669
 670 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 671
 672 .. raw:: html
 673
 674    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value=neurodebian"" /></td><td>
 675
 676 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 677
 678 .. raw:: html
 679
 680    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 681
 682 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 683
 684 .. raw:: html
 685
 686    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 687
 688 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 689
 690 .. raw:: html
 691
 692    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 693
 694 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 695
 696 .. raw:: html
 697
 698    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 699
 700 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 701
 702 .. raw:: html
 703
 704    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="other" /></td><td>
 705    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 706    </td></tr></table>
 707
 708 Software selection
 709 ------------------
 710
 711 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 712
 713 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 714 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 715
 716 .. raw:: html
 717
 718    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 719    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 720    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 721    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 722    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 723    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 724    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 725    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 726    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 727    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 728    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 729    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 730    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 731    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 732    </tr><tr>
 733    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 734    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 735    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 736    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 738    </tr></table>
 739
 740 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 741 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 742
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 744
 745    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 746    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 747    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 748    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 749    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 750    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 751    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 752    </tr></table>
 753
 754 Imaging
 755 ~~~~~~~
 756
 757 .. raw:: html
 758
 759    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 760    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 761    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 762    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 763    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 764    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 765    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 766    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 767    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 768    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 769    </tr><tr>
 770    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 771    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 772    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 773    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 774    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 775    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 776    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 777    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 778    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 779    </tr><tr>
 780    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 782    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 783    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 784    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 785    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 787    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 788    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 789    </tr><tr>
 790    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 792    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 793    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 794    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 795    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 797    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 798    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 799    </tr><tr>
 800    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 802    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 803    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 804    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 805    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 806    </tr></table>
 807
 808 Data management
 809 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 810
 811 .. raw:: html
 812
 813    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 814    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 815    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 816    </tr></table>
 817
 818 Neural systems modeling
 819 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 820
 821 .. raw:: html
 822
 823    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 824    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 825    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 826    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 827    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 828    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 829    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="genesis" />Genesis</td>
 830    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 831    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 832    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 833    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 834    </tr></table>
 835
 836 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 837 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 838
 839 .. raw:: html
 840
 841    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 842    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 843    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 844    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 845    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronus</td>
 846    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 847    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 848    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 849    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 850    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 851    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 852    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 853    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 854    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 855    </tr><tr>
 856    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 859    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />?Trellis-neuro</td>
 860    </tr></table>
 861
 862 Brain-computer interface
 863 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 864
 865 .. raw:: html
 866
 867    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 868    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 869    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 870    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 871    </tr></table>
 872
 873 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 874 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 875
 876 .. raw:: html
 877
 878    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 879    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 880    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 881    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 882    </tr></table>
 883
 884 Real-time solutions
 885 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 886
 887 .. raw:: html
 888
 889    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 890    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 891    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 892    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 893    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 894    </tr></table>
 895
 896 Psychophysics/Experimental control
 897 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 898
 899 .. raw:: html
 900
 901    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 902    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 903    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 904    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 905    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 906    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 907    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 908    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 909    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 910    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 911    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 912    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 913    </tr></table>
 914
 915 Other
 916 ~~~~~
 917
 918 .. raw:: html
 919
 920    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 921    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="other" />
 922    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 923    </tr></table>
 924
 925 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 926
 927 Thanks for filling out the questionaire. Upon successful submission you will
 928 be presented with some statistics computed from all previous participants.
 929
 930 .. raw:: html
 931
 932    <input value="Go" type="submit">
 933    <div id="server_response"></div>
 934    </form>
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 936
 937