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   2 Scientific software usage in neuroscience research
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   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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  58
  59 Personal background
  60 -------------------
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  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    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 123    </td><td>
 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="simulation" />Computational modeling/Simulations<br />
 127    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="otherdm" />
 128    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 129    </td></tr></table>
 130    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 131
 132 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 135
 136    </td><td class="response">
 137    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 138    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 139    </td>
 140    </tr>
 141    </table>
 142
 143 Personal scientific software environment
 144 ----------------------------------------
 145
 146 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 147 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 148 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 149 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 150 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 151 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 152 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 153 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 154 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
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 157
 158    <table>
 159    <tr class="oddrow">
 160    <td>
 161
 162 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 163 environment as opposed to any other environment that you migh have access to?
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 166
 167    </td><td class="response">
 168    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 169    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 170    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 171    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 172    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 173    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 174    </select>
 175    </td></tr><tr><td>
 176
 177 What type of hardware are you using?
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 180
 181    </td><td class="response">
 182    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 183    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 184    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 185    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 186    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 187    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 188    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 189    </select>
 190    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 191
 192 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 195
 196    </td><td class="response">
 197    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
 198
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 200    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 203
 204    </select>
 205    </td></tr><tr><td>
 206
 207 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 208 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 209 installing and updating scientific software.
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 212
 213    </td><td class="response">
 214    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 215    </td>
 216    </tr>
 217    </table>
 218
 219 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 220
 221 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 224
 225    <table>
 226    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 227
 228 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
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 231
 232    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 233    <td class="task">
 234
 235 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
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 238
 239    </td><td class="response">
 240    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 241    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 242    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 243    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 244    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 245
 246
 247 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
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 250
 251    </td><td class="response">
 252    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 253    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 254    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 255    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 256    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 257
 258
 259 ... of the availibility of commercial support
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 262
 263    </td><td class="response">
 264    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 265    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 266    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 267    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 268    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 269
 270
 271 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
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 274
 275    </td><td class="response">
 276    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 277    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 278    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 279    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 280    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 281
 282
 283 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 284
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 286
 287    </td><td class="response">
 288    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 289    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 290    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 291    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 292    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 293
 294
 295 ... I rely on a particular application that only runs in this environment
 296
 297 .. raw:: html
 298
 299    </td><td class="response">
 300    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 301    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 302    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 303    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 304    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 305
 306
 307 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
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 310
 311    </td><td class="response">
 312    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 313    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 314    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 315    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 316    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 317
 318
 319 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
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 322
 323    </td><td class="response">
 324    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 325    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 326    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 327    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 328    </td>
 329    </tr>
 330    </table>
 331
 332
 333 Managed scientific software environment
 334 ---------------------------------------
 335
 336 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 337 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 338 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 339 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 340 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 341 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 342 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 343 purposes.
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 348    <table class="questionaire">
 349    <tr class="oddrow">
 350    <td>
 351
 352 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 353 activities?
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 356
 357    </td><td class="response">
 358    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 359    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 360    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 361    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 362    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 363    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 364    </select>
 365    </td></tr><tr><td>
 366
 367 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 370
 371    </td><td class="response">
 372    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 373    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 374    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 375    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 376    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 377    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 378    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 379    </select>
 380    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 381
 382
 383 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 385 .. raw:: html
 386
 387    </td><td class="response">
 388    <select name="man_os" size="1">
 389
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 391    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 394
 395    </select>
 396    </td>
 397    </tr>
 398    </table>
 399
 400 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 401
 402 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 405
 406    <table>
 407    <tr class="oddrow">
 408    <td class="task">
 409
 410 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
 411
 412 .. raw:: html
 413
 414    </td><td class="response">
 415    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 416    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 417    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 418    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 419    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 420
 421 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 422 a timely fashion
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 424 .. raw:: html
 425
 426    </td><td class="response">
 427    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 428    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 429    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 430    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 431    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 432
 433 There are always enough licenses for essential commerical software tools
 434
 435 .. raw:: html
 436
 437    </td><td class="response">
 438    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 439    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 440    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 441    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 442    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 443
 444 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
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 447
 448    </td><td class="response">
 449    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 450    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 451    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 452    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 453    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 454
 455
 456 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 457 environment myself
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 459 .. raw:: html
 460
 461    </td><td class="response">
 462    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 463    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 464    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 465    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 466    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 467
 468 .. raw:: html
 469
 470    </td>
 471    </tr>
 472    </table>
 473
 474 Virtualization
 475 --------------
 476
 477 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 478 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 479 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 480 systems on one machine at the same time.
 481
 482 .. raw:: html
 483
 484    <table>
 485    <tr class="oddrow">
 486    <td class="task">
 487
 488 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in a virtual
 489 environment as opposed to any other environment?
 490
 491 .. raw:: html
 492
 493    </td><td class="response">
 494    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 495    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 496    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 497    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 498    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 499    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 500    </select>
 501    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 502
 503 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 504
 505 .. raw:: html
 506
 507    </td><td class="response">
 508    <table><tr><td>
 509    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 510    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 511    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 512    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 513    </td><td>
 514    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 515    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 516    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 517    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="othervm" />
 518    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 519    </td></tr></table>
 520    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 521
 522 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 523
 524 .. raw:: html
 525
 526    </td><td class="response">
 527    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 528
 529 .. raw:: html
 530    :file: select_os_options.inc
 531
 532 .. raw:: html
 533
 534    </select>
 535    </td></tr><tr><td>
 536
 537 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 538
 539 .. raw:: html
 540
 541    </td><td class="response">
 542    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 543
 544 .. raw:: html
 545    :file: select_os_options.inc
 546
 547 .. raw:: html
 548
 549    </select>
 550    </td></tr></table>
 551
 552 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 553
 554 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 555 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 556
 557 .. raw:: html
 558
 559    <table>
 560    <tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 561
 562 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 563
 564 .. raw:: html
 565
 566    </td><td class="response">
 567    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 568    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 569    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 570    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 571    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 572
 573 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 574
 575 .. raw:: html
 576
 577    </td><td class="response">
 578    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 579    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 580    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 581    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 582    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 583
 584
 585 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 586 machines
 587
 588 .. raw:: html
 589
 590    </td><td class="response">
 591    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 592    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 593    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 594    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 595    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 596
 597 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 598 research
 599
 600 .. raw:: html
 601
 602    </td><td class="response">
 603    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 604    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 605    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 606    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 607    </td>
 608    </tr>
 609    </table>
 610
 611
 612 Resources for scientific software
 613 ---------------------------------
 614
 615 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 616 check all items that apply
 617
 618 .. raw:: html
 619
 620    <table class="questionaire">
 621    <tr class="oddrow">
 622    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 623
 624 Directly from vendor or project website
 625
 626 .. raw:: html
 627
 628    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 629
 630 Retailer
 631
 632 .. raw:: html
 633
 634    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 635
 636 Comes with the operating system
 637
 638 .. raw:: html
 639
 640    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 641
 642 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 643
 644 .. raw:: html
 645
 646    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 647
 648 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 649
 650 .. raw:: html
 651
 652    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 653
 654 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 655
 656 .. raw:: html
 657
 658    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 659
 660 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 661
 662 .. raw:: html
 663
 664    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 665
 666 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 667
 668 .. raw:: html
 669
 670    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 671
 672 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 673
 674 .. raw:: html
 675
 676    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="macports" /></td><td>
 677
 678 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 679
 680 .. raw:: html
 681
 682    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 683
 684 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 685
 686 .. raw:: html
 687
 688    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="neurodebian" /></td><td>
 689
 690 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 691
 692 .. raw:: html
 693
 694    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 695
 696 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 697
 698 .. raw:: html
 699
 700    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 701
 702 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 703
 704 .. raw:: html
 705
 706    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 707
 708 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 709
 710 .. raw:: html
 711
 712    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 713
 714 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 715
 716 .. raw:: html
 717
 718    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="otherres" /></td><td>
 719    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 720    </td></tr></table>
 721
 722 Software selection
 723 ------------------
 724
 725 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 726
 727 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 728 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 729
 730 .. raw:: html
 731
 732    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 733    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 734    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 735    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 736    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 738    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 739    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 740    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 741    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 742    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 743    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 744    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 745    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 746    </tr><tr>
 747    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 748    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 749    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 750    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 751    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 752    </tr></table>
 753
 754 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 755 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 756
 757 .. raw:: html
 758
 759    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 760    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 761    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 762    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 763    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 764    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 765    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 766    </tr></table>
 767
 768 Imaging
 769 ~~~~~~~
 770
 771 .. raw:: html
 772
 773    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 774    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 775    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 776    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 777    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 778    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 779    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 780    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 782    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 783    </tr><tr>
 784    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 785    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 787    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="camino" />Camino</td>
 788    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 789    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 790    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 792    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 793    </tr><tr>
 794    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 795    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 797    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 798    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 799    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 800    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 802    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 803    </tr><tr>
 804    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 805    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 806    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 807    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 808    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 809    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 810    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 811    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 812    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 813    </tr><tr>
 814    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 815    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 816    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 817    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 818    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 819    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 820    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 821    </tr></table>
 822
 823 Data management
 824 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 825
 826 .. raw:: html
 827
 828    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 829    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 830    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 831    </tr></table>
 832
 833 Neural systems modeling
 834 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 835
 836 .. raw:: html
 837
 838    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 839    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 840    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="ecanse" />Siemens ECANSE</td>
 841    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="emergent" />Emergent NNSS</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="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 844    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 845    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 846    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 847    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 848    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuroml" />NeuroML</td>
 849    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 850    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neurosolutions" />NeuroSolutions</td>
 851    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 852    </tr><tr>
 853    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="peltarion" />Peltarion</td>
 854    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="psics" />PSICS</td>
 855    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 856    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snnap" />SNNAP</td>
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snns" />SNNS</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 859    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 860    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="xnbc" />XNBC</td>
 861    </tr></table>
 862
 863 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 864 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 865
 866 .. raw:: html
 867
 868    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 869    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="asa" />ASA</td>
 870    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 871    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 872    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 873    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainvisionanalyzer" />Brainvision Analyzer</td>
 874    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronux</td>
 875    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 876    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 877    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 878    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 879    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 880    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 881    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 882    </tr><tr>
 883    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mclust" />MClust</td>
 884    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 885    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroshare" />Neuroshare</td>
 886    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 887    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 888    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="plexon" />Plexon</td>
 889    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 890    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 891    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 892    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />Trellis-neuro</td>
 893    </tr></table>
 894
 895 Brain-computer interface
 896 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 897
 898 .. raw:: html
 899
 900    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 901    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 902    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 903    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 904    </tr></table>
 905
 906 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 907 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 908
 909 .. raw:: html
 910
 911    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 912    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 913    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 914    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 915    </tr></table>
 916
 917 Real-time solutions
 918 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 919
 920 .. raw:: html
 921
 922    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 923    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 924    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 925    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 926    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 927    </tr></table>
 928
 929 Psychophysics/Experiment control
 930 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 931
 932 .. raw:: html
 933
 934    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 935    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 936    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 937    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 938    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 939    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 940    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 941    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 942    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 943    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 944    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 945    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 946    </tr></table>
 947
 948 Other
 949 ~~~~~
 950
 951 .. raw:: html
 952
 953    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 954    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="othersw" />
 955    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 956    </tr></table>
 957
 958 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 959
 960 .. raw:: html
 961
 962    <input id="submit_button" value="Submit survey" type="submit">
 963    <div id="server_response"></div>
 964    </form>
 965
 966
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