THPCC Q1'09 Survey

1. What industry do you work in? Required Question

2. What are your biggest HPC performance challenges (rank in order of importance)? Required Question

1]	Power and cooling
2]	Hardware serviceability
3]	Cost/price of hardware
4]	Cost/price of software
5]	Cost of system administration
6]	Memory latency
7]	Interconnect speed
8]	Multi-core performance
9]	Application limitations
10]	Finding qualified people

3. What type of hardware architecture do you currently have deployed? Required Question

	Rack servers (1U, 2U, and/or 3U Height)
	Blade servers
	Workstations on shelves
	Other

4. How are you planning to address multi-core processing? Required Question

	Do nothing, treat nodes as I have done in the past
	Optimize code for best multi-core performance by hand
	Optimize code for best multi-core performance using software tools
	Optimize program placement on multi-core nodes using the scheduler

5. Is processing, memory scalability and issue for you? Required Question

	No
	Processor/multi-core scaling limits performance
	Memory performance limits scaling

6. Are you using any software tools to optimize your application? Required Question

	No
	I use commercial tools
	I use open source tools
	I use the tools that work for me (commercial or open source)

7. To be entered in the drawing for the Amazon Giftcard, please enter your contact information below.

First Name

Last Name

Title

Company Name

Street Address

Apt/Suite/Office

City

State

Postal Code

Country

Email Address

Phone Number

	Financial Markets/Banking
	Geo-Sciences (Chemical and Petroleum)
	University/Academic
	Government
	Life Sciences/Chemistry
	Manufacturing
	Weather
	Other