FutureGrid Education Early Adopter Survey

This is a survey with the goal of collecting information from prospective early adopters of the FutureGrid testbed in education and training activities. You can learn more about FutureGrid and training/education activities by visiting www.futuregrid.org

This survey is short and anonymous - your input and comments will be of great value to the project in helping define features that will be provided for education and training activities in FutureGrid. On behalf of the FutureGrid TEOS team, thank you very much for taking the time to complete the survey.

1. What are the training, educational and outreach activities you conduct that you believe could benefit from access to FutureGrid hardware and software? Select all that apply.

What are the training, educational and outreach activities you conduct that you believe could benefit from access to FutureGrid hardware and software? Select all that apply. Undergraduate classes

Graduate classes

Short workshops/tutorials (half/one day)

Long workshops/tutorials (more than one day)

Demonstrations

Others (please elaborate)

2. How many participants do you estimate are involved per year in the activities you selected in the previous questions?

How many participants do you estimate are involved per year in the activities you selected in the previous questions? Less than 10

10-50

50-100

100-200

More than 200

3. What capabilities of FutureGrid would most benefit your training/education/outreach activities? Select all that apply.

What capabilities of FutureGrid would most benefit your training/education/outreach activities? Select all that apply. Ability to deploy your own virtual machines on FutureGrid cloud resources for hands-on activities

Ability to deploy third party virtual machine appliances on FutureGrid (e.g. tailored for educational use)

Ability to deploy FutureGrid educational virtual appliance images on local resources (e.g. student desktops, clusters)

Ability to upload and share your images with other FutureGrid users

Access to "bare metal" (non-virtualized) physical resources

4. Do you currently use virtual machines in education and training activities?

Do you currently use virtual machines in education and training activities? Yes

5. Do you currently use commercial cloud computing infrastructures (e.g. GoGrid, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure) in education and training activities?

Do you currently use commercial cloud computing infrastructures (e.g. GoGrid, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure) in education and training activities? Yes

If so, wha providers have you used?

6. Do you have educational/training activities that would require access to "bare metal", non-virtualized systems?

Do you have educational/training activities that would require access to "bare metal", non-virtualized systems? Yes

If you answer Yes, please describe which aspect(s) of virtualization would be a hindrance

7. Do you use any performance analysis tools (e.g., Vampir, IPM, Tau, etc.) in education/training activities?

Do you use any performance analysis tools (e.g., Vampir, IPM, Tau, etc.) in education/training activities? Yes

If so, what tools have you used?

8. Which performance analysis tools would you like to use on FutureGrid?

Which performance analysis tools would you like to use on FutureGrid?

9. Please describe any software/middleware packages (e.g. Matlab, Globus) that are required as part of your training/educational activities.

Please describe any software/middleware packages (e.g. Matlab, Globus) that are required as part of your training/educational activities.

10. Please use this space to for comments and suggestions that you would find useful in providing feedback to the use of FutureGrid in training and education

Please use this space to for comments and suggestions that you would find useful in providing feedback to the use of FutureGrid in training and education

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