Re: Science and Education repos/ Scientific packages

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Alin Marin Elena <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2010 19:49:26 Thomas Hertweck wrote:
>> On 16/09/10 11:17, Alin Marin Elena wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > First I would like to know what is the Education repo and what is the
>> > science repo..
>> > which of them would be the best place to push scientific packages.
>>
>> Could you give examples of what you would typically classify as
>> "scientific packages"? Tools like "octave", "gnuplot" etc are part
>> of the standard distribution as far as I know. These are tools that
>> I would classify as "general purpose science tools".
> I will give you example of only few packages from my immediate area of
> research. They may look obscure to you and a lot of other people but keep in
> mind that linux distros are used almost exclusively in science research labs.
> One of the point that weighs a lot in what distro is installed by the admins
> is the availability of these obscure packages...
>
> cp2k,gromacs,octopus, abinit, alps and the list can continue and if on top of
> this you add that they come in 4 flavours usually (serial, mpi, openmp and
> mpi/openmp). You can easily harvest the list of packages opensource installed
> on different supercomputing sites.
>
> Alin

Alin,

You can look for yourself at: http://software.opensuse.org/search

Here is the list for gromacs
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=gromacs&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.3&lang=en&exclude_filter=home%3A&exclude_debug=true

You can see for 11.3 it is part of the main distribution and it is in
the education repo.

Unfortunately the rest of the packages in your list don't seem to be
in the OBS.  (I did not search home dirs).

openSUSE is a very open distro.  If you or anyone else wants to get a
OBS account they can build the various packages you find of interest.
Then push them up to an appropriate repo.

I'm not sure if the education repo is the right one, or if a science
repo should be created.

Creating a repo is a simple matter of filing a bugzilla requesting one
iirc.  The more difficult task is building all the packages and
pushing them into the repo(s).  But again all of the above can be down
by anyone.

Greg
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