[Mpi-forum] MPI user survey

[Jeff Squyres]

Actually, when we put the questions in the survey web site, they came  
out slightly differently.  Have a look here:

     http://mpi-forum.questionpro.com/

*** DO NOT GIVE THIS URL OUT TO USERS YET! ***

Feel free to fill out the survey; we'll be clearing all the data on  
Monday evening so that it can "go live".




On Nov 14, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:

> Forum -- here's the questions that I took down on Friday morning.
> Josh Hursey and I cleaned them up quite a bit, and we grabbed Bill
> Gropp for 5 minutes on Saturday to give us a bit of spot feedback.
> Here's the results.
>
> *** Please send comments by Monday evening so that we can get these
> posted on a web site.  Thanks.
>
> ------------------------
> x. Which of the following best describes you?
>     - User of MPI applications
>     - MPI application developer
>     - MPI implementer
>     - Academic educator, student, or researcher
>     - Program / project management
>     - Other ________________
>
> x. Rate your familiarity with the MPI standard?
>     - 1/not familiar at all ... 5/extremely familiar
>
> x. Think of an MPI application that you run frequently.  What is the
>     typical number of MPI processes per job that you run? (select all
>     that apply)
>     - 1-16 MPI processes
>     - 17-64 MPI processes
>     - 65-512 MPI processes
>     - 513-2048 MPI processes
>     - 2049 MPI processes or more
>     - I don't know
>
> x. Using the same MPI application from #3, what is the typical number
>     of MPI processes that you run per node? (select all that apply)
>     - 1 MPI process
>     - 2-3 MPI processes
>     - 4-7 MPI processes
>     - 8-15 MPI processes
>     - 16 MPI processes or more
>     - I don't know
>
> x. Using the same application from #3, is it a 32 or 64 bit  
> application?
>     (select all that apply)
>     - 32 bit
>     - 64 bit
>     - I don't know
>     - Other: _________________
>
> x. Which of the following do your *any* of your MPI applications use?
>      (select all that apply)
>     - Threads
>     - OpenMP
>     - Shmem
>     - Global Arrays
>     - Co-processors / accelerators
>     - PGAS languages
>     - I don't know
>     - Other: ______________
>
> x. How important are each of the following sets of MPI functionality
> to *any* of your MPI applications?
>     1/not important at all ... 5/very important
>     - Point-to-point communications
>     - Collective communications
>     - Derived / complex datatypes
>     - Communicators other than MPI_COMM_WORLD
>     - Graph or Cartesian process topologies
>     - Error handles / error checking
>     - Dynamic MPI processes (spawn, connect/accept, join)
>     - One-sided communication
>     - Generalized requests
>     - Parallel I/O
>     - "PMPI" profiling interface
>     - Multi-threaded applications (for example, MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE)
>     - Other: ______________
>     If you marked any set with 1 or 2, please explain why.
>     __________
>
> x. Are any of your MPI applications written to use the MPI C++
>     bindings?
>     - Yes
>     - No
>     - I don't know
>
> x. I expect to be able to upgrade to an MPI-3 implementation and still
>     be able to run my legacy MPI aplications *without recompiling*.
>     Strongly agree/1 ...... Strongly disagree/5
>     Open comment: _________________________
>
> x. I expect to be able to upgrade to an MPI-3 implementation and only
>      need to recompile my legacy MPI applications *with no source code
>      changes*.
>      Strongly agree/1 ....... Strongly disagree/5
>      Open comment: _________________________
>
> x. My MPI application would benefit from being able to reference more
>     than 2^31 data items in a single MPI function invocation.
>      Strongly agree/1 ....... Strongly disagree/5
>      Open comment: _________________________
>
> x. MPI one-sided communication performance is more important to me
>      than supporting a rich remote memory access (RMA) feature set.
>      Strongly agree/1 ....... Strongly disagree/5
>      Open comment: _________________________
>
> x. The following are a list of topics that the MPI Forum is
>     considering for MPI-3.  Rank them in order of importance to your
>     MPI applications:
>     - Non-blocking collective communications
>     - Revamped one-sided communications (compared to MPI-2.2)
>     - MPI application control of fault tolerance
>     - New Fortran bindings (type safety, etc.)
>     - "Hybrid" programming (MPI in conjunction with threads,  
> OpenMP, ..)
>     - Standardized third-party MPI tool support
>     - Other: ______________
>
> x. What *ONE THING* would you like to see added or improved in the MPI
>     standard?
>     _____________
>
> x. Rate the following in order of importance to your MPI applications:
>     - Performance
>     - Feature-rich API
>     - Run-time reliability
>     - Scalability to large numbers of MPI processes
>     - Integration with other communication protocols /
>
> x. Did you attend the MPI Forum BOF at SC09?
>     - Yes
>     - No
>
> x. Use the space below to provide any other information, suggestions,
>      or comments to the MPI Forum.
>      ________________________
>
>
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> Jeff Squyres
> jsquyres at cisco.com
>
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Jeff Squyres
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