HPCS Study Overview CMSC 818S February 10 2004 Jeff Carver University of Maryland Slide 1 HPCS Productivity Fraunhofer Center Maryland Overview You will be participating in a study during this class Done in conjunction with the larger HPC community Goal of understanding how people solve HPC problems and where they spend their time Independent Research Team Dr Basili Dr Zelkowitz Dr Carver Dr Asgari Dr Shull L Hochstein Data will be collected throughout semester Background Survey Effort Activities during development Questionnaire Interview after assignments University of Maryland Slide 2 HPCS Productivity Fraunhofer Center Maryland Forms For Today Consent form Allows the research team to use the data collected during this study anonymously Background Survey Allows the research team to better understand the types of experience and knowledge you have at the beginning of the class Please be as honest and accurate as possible Dr Sussman will not see this data until after the semester and it will not affect your grade Weblink for survey http care cs umd edu 3555 CMSC818S Background Questionnaire html University of Maryland Slide 3 HPCS Productivity Fraunhofer Center Maryland Data Collection When you compile your program you will be prompted with the following questions 1 How long in minutes have you been working before this compile Hit enter if you have been working continuously since last compile 2 Reason for Compile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Learning Experimenting with compiler Adding functionality serial code Parallelizing code Improving performance tuning Compile time error on previous compile Run time error on previous run incorrect behavior crashed hung etc Other You will be asked to supply a reason All information will be collected by the research team will not be seen by Dr Sussman until after the semester It will not affect your grade University of Maryland Slide 4 HPCS Productivity Fraunhofer Center Maryland Questions Please email me with any questions Jeff Carver carver cs umd edu University of Maryland Slide 5 HPCS Productivity Fraunhofer Center Maryland
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