Questionnaire for Cluster Interviews

Date:__________	Time:________		Cluster:________

1.	What is your status at MIT?  


	__'96   __'97   __'98   __'99   __G   __other (specify)__________

	Major/Dept:___________________

2. 	What brings you to this cluster today?

	____	Software availability	
	____	Social aspect of the clusters
	____	Geographic location at this time of day		
	____	I have no other form of computer access
	____	Speed and power of the Athena machines			

3.  What kind of work are you doing in this login session?(Check all that apply)
	____Email 	
	____Writing documents/reports /papers	
	____Math/Data Analysis/Plotting
	____Programming		
	____Web browsing
	____Library & reference  (e.g. Catalog, Database )
	____Rendering of images
	____Zephyr, Discuss, News, IRC, etc
	____Game playing
	____Other 

4.  What software applications  other than Emacs or xterm are you using to do
this work? 	

5.  What is the primary purpose of your current login session?

	____	Coursework (specify which courses)	
	____	UROP  in __________________
	____	Thesis					
	____	Other 
		
6.  Name up to 5 software applications (other than Emacs or xterm) that you use
most frequently.   For each, how often do you use it? 	(1=occasionally, 2=at
most sessions,  3=always)


7.  What percent of your logins are short sessions (10 minutes or under) that
just involve reading and sending of email or using Zephyr? __________

8. a.  Think of a typical week during the semester (for example, last week).  
	For approximately how many hours were you logged in in an Athena 
	cluster? 

b.  Of these hours, what percentage were spent doing the following activities?
Rough guesses are sufficient.

	____Email 	
	____Writing documents/reports /papers	
	____Math/Data Analysis/Plotting
	____Programming		
	____Web browsing
	____Library & reference  (e.g. Catalog, Database )
	____Rendering of images
	____Zephyr, Discuss, News, IRC, etc
	____Game playing
	____Other 
	
9.  Do you have access to a computer directly on MITnet where you live?	

10. The operating system is ____MacOS ____Microsoft ____UNIX ____Other_______
	The computer is:
	    ____my own computer
	    ____my roommate's computer
	    ____a computer elsewhere in my dorm/ILG