Ethics/Interview Questions for Ethics Project

1. What do you know about computer clusters (more specifically, Beowulf clusters)?

2. Describe your own knowledge of computer programming.

3. How do you think you would use the cluster (personal projects, class assignments, student research)?

4. Do you envision a team of Computer Science student "consultants" helping you with a project, or do you envision you or a group of students from your own department taking full control of the programming? If a team of consultants was not provided, would you be less likely to use the cluster?

5. Place the concerns of "Reliability", "Speed", "Being up-to-date", "Ease of Use", and "Security" into the categories of "Most Valued", "Moderately Valued", and "Less Valued".

6. Assuming a solid documentation base existed for the cluster, would the use of command-line interfaces instead of intuitive graphical user interfaces deter you from promoting use of the cluster to your students?

7. What kind of uptime do you expect the cluster to have? Would periodic/weekly downtimes be reasonable?

8. Do you have expectations about maintenance or turnaround time for fixes? If so, what? How, if at all, would these expectations differ during summer and breaks?

9. Do you have questions for us about the cluster?'''