Subject: ADF

From: [email-masked] (Bert te Velde)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:38:29 +0100

Dear all,

This is primarily a call upon all users of ADF who have NOT obtained a license directly from SCM or the Theoretical Chemistry Department of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. We wish to update our knowledge of the ADF user-base so as to be better able to enquire about research fields, technical issues, development and improvement preferences, etc. Therefore, we kindly ask you two minutes of your time to answer the questions below and send your answers to:

[email-masked]

Please feel free to add any comments or suggestions you may have, also when not directly related to the questions.

1. would you like to be included in mailing lists to receive information about new releases or developments of ADF?

2. what is your affiliation type (industry, government research, academic, ...)?

3. what kind of platforms are you using ADF on? (eg: workstation, computers at SuperComputerCentre, parallel workstation clusters, mainframes, ...)?

4. Could you indicate the general application area / research field you are using ADF for?

5. when you have problems with understanding results or using the code, where do you go for help? (figure out yourself, someone else at your institute, the license provider (please indicate which), ....) Are you usually satisfied with how that works out?

6. how do you perceive the available documentation in general (not detailed enough, way too extended, ...)? Any details in your answer are appreciated.

7. do you use ADF primarily on its own or rather in conjunction with other chemistry codes (modelling, ab initio, semi-empirical, ...)? If the latter, could you indicate what for your research ADF's position is within the pack of programs you're using?

8. what are in your experience ADF's weakest points? What type of improvements / developments would be welcomed most in the context of your research?

thanks for your attention,

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Bert te Velde                       SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING & MODELLING
phone:  +31-20 44 47625             Chemistry Department, Vrije Universiteit
fax     +31-20-44 47643             De Boelelaan 1083; 1081 HV Amsterdam
e-mail: [email-masked]          The Netherlands
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