United States of America
170 resp.
55.4%
United Kingdom
46 resp.
15%
Germany
21 resp.
6.8%
Canada
16 resp.
5.2%
Australia
7 resp.
2.3%
France
6 resp.
2%
Italy
4 resp.
1.3%
Brazil
3 resp.
1%
Ireland
3 resp.
1%
Portugal
3 resp.
1%
Sweden
3 resp.
1%
Belgium
2 resp.
0.7%
Finland
2 resp.
0.7%
India
2 resp.
0.7%
Japan
2 resp.
0.7%
Argentina
1 resp.
0.3%
Austria
1 resp.
0.3%
Colombia
1 resp.
0.3%
Croatia
1 resp.
0.3%
Denmark
1 resp.
0.3%
Estonia
1 resp.
0.3%
Hungary
1 resp.
0.3%
Jordan
1 resp.
0.3%
Mexico
1 resp.
0.3%
Netherlands
1 resp.
0.3%
Norway
1 resp.
0.3%
Saudi Arabia
1 resp.
0.3%
Serbia
1 resp.
0.3%
Singapore
1 resp.
0.3%
Tunisia
1 resp.
0.3%
Ukraine
1 resp.
0.3%
United Arab Emirates
1 resp.
0.3%
All other countries
0 resp.
0%
What is your relationship with HPC and related fields?
307 out of 307 answered
I work or study in an academic institution or national lab
202 resp.
65.8%
I work in industry
83 resp.
27%
I am a hobbyist or pleasantly retired
11 resp.
3.6%
Other
10 resp.
3.3%
I am a journalist or industry analyst
1 resp.
0.3%
What is (are) your role(s)?
1 out of 307 answered
Journalist
1 resp.
100%
Consultant
0 resp.
0%
Industry analyst
0 resp.
0%
Other
0 resp.
0%
As an industry participant, what is (are) your role(s)?
83 out of 307 answered
Software development
44 resp.
53%
Hardware development
24 resp.
28.9%
General management
19 resp.
22.9%
Sales or product awareness
19 resp.
22.9%
Consultant
17 resp.
20.5%
Independent or self-employed
6 resp.
7.2%
Other
13 resp.
15.7%
Performance Engineer
Research
Systems Engineer
Performance Analysis and Tuning
PE and Solution Architect
HPC and Infra Engineer
Strategy and funding
Strategy
System administrator
Engineering/R&D
HPC benchmarking expert
Security
System Architect / System Admin
What is your academic role?
202 out of 307 answered
Staff
152 resp.
75.2%
Faculty
46 resp.
22.8%
Student
20 resp.
9.9%
Other
11 resp.
5.4%
Support
Non academic
Manager
IT Management
Administrator, Faculty, and Advisor
Advisor to the (other) research faculty
Communications
PostDoc
Research Software Engineer
Director
Specialist Consultant
Are you part of an organization that has an outreach budget?
285 out of 307 answered
Yes
128 resp.
44.9%
No
101 resp.
35.4%
I prefer not to answer
56 resp.
19.6%
If you join a new social media space for HPC, how many colleagues or friends are you planning to invite to join also?
307 out of 307 answered
10
5
0
0
2
0
0
10
0
3
0
100
5
0
10
5
2
2
10
10
3
25
20
4
0
How happy are you with existing social media for personal or technical exchange of information in the HPC and advanced computing space
307 out of 307 answered
5.1
Average rating
Rank the following in order in terms of your interests
307 out of 307 answered
Hardware technical info (new types, usage, deployments, etc.)
Software technical info (Releases, updates, usage, etc.)
Personal interactions with colleagues
Community events (conferences, etc.)
Opportunities to participate in projects
How important is a code of conduct and moderation to enforce it to you for participation in a social media space?
306 out of 307 answered
6.8
Average rating
What restrictions should be put in place to keep out spammers or unwanted content for admission into the HPC.social space?
298 out of 307 answered
Administrative approval based on agreeing to a code of conduct
188 resp.
63.1%
Verified participants only using Mastodon <a rel="me"> methods
111 resp.
37.2%
Administrative approval to join based on a participation statement
103 resp.
34.6%
Totally open, let people's interests decide
67 resp.
22.5%
Payment of a nominal donation to offset server costs
51 resp.
17.1%
What do you think would be the best way to pay for the operating costs of hosting HPC.social services?
307 out of 307 answered
Sponsorship from an HPC-oriented organization as outreach
220 resp.
71.7%
Industry sponsorships without paid posts
174 resp.
56.7%
Personal donations or subscriptions
151 resp.
49.2%
Industry advertisements as paid posts
104 resp.
33.9%
Other
11 resp.
3.6%
Waive any fees for students or low income
Don't create it
organisational subscription
Funded only by the people advocating it
Grants
Patreon
I have no idea
dont do this - we already have too many social media platforms
Institutional support
All of these have problems with exclusion - eg keeping sponsors happy, or excluding competing audiences, etc.
See post from FelixCLC under initial survey
What other information or features should we consider?
62 out of 307 answered
Discord. Not that I advocate that.
As a (relatively) young person, an HPC discord server, sort of like the LLVM one, would be neat. Going all out into mastadon seems a little risky…
European data protection rules…
Mastodon works for me
Federated authentication with a federation / IdPs focused on HPC (ie not Facebook) Cluster Mastodon instance across multiple supporting institutions for higher availability and lower cost.
Consider resilience. Geographic diversification.
A slack, Google drive, and monthly meetings
run the glitch-soc fork
I can't think of anything
-
Not used Mastodon before but willing to try. Keep industry folks away as much as possible to not dominate the platform (i.e. participate but not sponsor)
Why do we need this? What is missing in existing social spaces, and what is the (social) cost of splitting the community across various platforms?
Don't build your own.
This seems like a good idea - important to make it a safe space for discussion.
If advertisements were used in this product it would affect companies in the dod space to work on this project.
None
Came here to recommend Masto
It should be a channel for career progression.
I don't think this is a good idea and would lead to fragmentation. It strikes me as enormously hypocritical and US-centric to ignore for e.g. Putin and Medvedev being on Twitter, but to get in a hissy fit about Musk buying the company.
This isn't needed, and will fracture the HPC community
Mastodon would be perfect
are there other existing platforms already? Cyberteams? private spaces in existing platforms? concerns about yet another distraction or dilution of participation
Would be willing to help
Is something like Discourse more suited?
Wait a month then buy Twitter for ~$3.50