employer: ``higher education (private/public funding), research facility
(private/public funding, company)``
country: ``long list``
+do you develop software intended to be used by other researchers: ``yes, no``
Personal computing environment
------------------------------
for research purposes that you administer yourself, instead, please indicate
what kind of environment you would like to be doing your research in.
+Do you have it: ``yes, no``
+
Type: ``laptop, commodity desktop, dedicated workstation,
compute cluster, grid/cloud computing environment``
Institutionally provided computing environment
----------------------------------------------
-The following questions are about
+The following questions are about
What your employer offers.
+Do you use it: ``yes, no``
+
Type: ``laptop, commodity desktop, dedicated workstation,
compute cluster, grid/cloud computing environment``
``checkboxes (limited set of available software; slow admin response; ...)``
+
+
Virtualization
--------------
-Do you use it:
+Do you use it? ``yes, no``
IF
~~
What solution: ``multi select vbox, vmware, kvm, xem, qemu``
On what host system: ``detailed list``
-With what client system ``detailed list``
+With what guest system ``detailed list``
-Why do you use it:
+Why do you use it: ``multi select``
-Otherwise incompatible with my system
-Flexible snapshots
-Portable
+ - Otherwise software incompatible with my system
+ - Flexible snapshots
+ - Portable (test developed software across platforms)
What fraction of computing task do you do in a VM?
+Do you do computing on clusters?
+Do you do computing in a cloud?
+
Software usage
--------------
What software are you using in your research?
+? Do you use real-time Linux kernel? if yes, which: ``multi select RTAI, Xenomai, RT_Linux``
+
+
General purpose computing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``various collections of software for various purposes``
+
+NeuroDebian
+-----------
+
+Do you use NeuroDebian repository: ``yes, no``
+
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