# ISC'24 BoF

## Questions for interactive poll

via mentimeter.com

0) **What does the first 'E' in EESSI stand for?**

- Everywhere
- Efficient
- European
- Enabling
- EasyBuild-is-not-EESSI

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1) **Which tools do you use for "installing" software on the HPC systems you use?**

- CernVM-FS
- conda/mamba
- containers
- EasyBuild
- Nix/Guix
- Spack
- *(something else)*

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2) Which hardware platforms do you use and/or manage?

- Intel CPU + NVIDIA GPU
- Intel CPU + AMD GPU
- Intel CPU + Intel GPU
- AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU
- AMD CPU + AMD GPU
- AMD CPU + Intel GPU
- Arm CPU + NVIDIA GPU
- Arm CPU + AMD GPU
- Arm CPU + Intel GPU
- *(something else)*

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3) **Which systems do you use for running scientific workloads?**

- On-premise HPC cluster
- On-premise cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon EC2 (AWS)
- Other commercial cloud (Google, Oracle, ...)
- Personal workstation/laptop

-> Do we want a follow-up to this one where we want people to specify if they mix a lot or if they mostly stick to one system

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4) **How many different software applications, tools, and libraries do you use and/or provide for running scientific workloads?**

- none
- exactly 1
- 2-5
- 5-10
- 10-20
- 20-50
- 100-200
- 200-500
- 500-1,000
- over 1,000

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5) **To what extent do you test the software you install?**

- Not at all (YOLO)
- I only run very basic tests (does it run?)
- I run the test suite (that comes with the software), but if tests are broken I usually ignore them
- I run the test suite, and make some effort to figure out why some tests are broken (but may give up quickly)
- I run the test suite, and do what’s needed to fix the broken tests
- I run the test suite, and won’t stop until all tests pass
- I run the test suite, and also ran additional (extensive) tests of my own

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[last question]
XXX) **Are you planning to look into EESSI after ISC'24?**

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