Supplementary survey results

Note

The primary analyses have been published in:

Hanke, M. & Halchenko, Y. O. (2011). Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 5:8.

Submitter background

The figures in this section provide some information on the background of the participants in this survey: What data do they work with? Where are they coming from? What is their position? Whom are they employed by?

Scientific computing environment preferences

This figures in this section expand the analysis on operating system environment preference, and illustrate the results of the rating analysis reported in the paper.

Rating analyses

The figures in this section show rating statistics grouped by the respective operating system and use the same system color code as in the figure above. The segments in each bar indicate the frequency of individual rating options (from definitely disagree to definitely agree) in up to four levels of color saturation.

Personal environment

I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...

... the developers of an important research software recommend it
... of the variety of available research software for this environment
... of the availability of commercial support
... many of my colleagues use something similar
... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
... I rely on a particular application that runs in this environment only
... it has adequate support for all required hardware
... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself

Managed environment

I agree with the statements

This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in a timely fashion
There are always enough licenses for essential commercial software tools
I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment

Virtual environment (by host OS)

I agree with the statements

I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different machines

Virtual environment (by guest OS)

I agree with the statements

I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different machines

Software resources

This section reports the results on where the survey participants obtain their research software from/

Software popularity

The section on software popularity shows what software participants indicated to be using in their research activities – group by field of application.

Note

^† Entries which were either entered in “Other” field or were added to the survey form while survey was already running.

Note

^† Entries which were either entered in “Other” field or were added to the survey form while survey was already running.

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