Re: [opensuse] interest for scientific computing BoF for oSC?

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On 07/18/2011 06:02 PM, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Dne 18.7.2011 17:34, Andre Massing napsal(a):
>> Hi there!
> 
>> I just want to quickly check whether there is a general interest for a
>> get together at the oSC of people working with scientific computing (SC)
>> software and openSUSE.
>> A motivation behind this is to discuss how to improve opensuse as
>> platform for scientific computing. I am in general very satisfied with
>> my shortterm experience of openSUSE, including tumbleweed, but I after
>> my recent switch to this distribution I discovered that quite some
>> packages which are interested in  my SC corner are either outdated or
>> not available in the *official* repos.
>> Some of these are:
> 
>> openmpi  outdated (1.2.8)
>> libatlas (none)
>> mayavi and enthought related packages (none)
>> python-scipy (none)
>> paraview
>> petsc,trilinos, armadillo (none)
>> netgen, tetgen, triangle (none)
>> bullet (none)
>> cgal, gts (none)
>> scientific python (none)
>> suitesparse?
> 
>> Some of these are spread over different projects like Science and
>> Education, which results in a significant overlap of packages with
>> different version numbers, possible incompatibilities etc.
> 
>> So an idea might be to talk about how to improve the situation, software
>> which might be interesting to package (maybe even trying to start a
>> unifying SC project) or about what else comes into your mind!
> 
>> As I said that are some first thoughts and I am looking forward to
>> hearing any comment, suggestion etc.
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Andre
> 
> I'm biologist, so I'm also highly interested in this question, although
> I'm not developer (I help with translations and bug reporting). Just to
> remind, there are two important mailing lists for those topics:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-medical/ and
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-edu/ 

Thanks for the pointers. I subscribed to them as well and will forward
the message to those. I recognized a very low traffic on the Education
ml, is that project still active? And what about the science project?

> There also has been some
> extensive discussion on openFATE, see for example
> https://features.opensuse.org/query/tag?tag=scientific

Oh, great, I was thinking about opening such a feature request, thanks
for pointing that out, I will add a list of missing interesting software
there.

> I personally use R (incl. Rkward and so on), a lot of software written
> in Java (hehe, is there real need to package it?;-) 
> and easy C binaries.
> Also software like KBibTeX and so on. Some software is in repos like
> Science, Education, 	devel:/languages:/R:/ (not so much there at all), ...
> So I'm interested in such activity, but I'm not sure how much I can
> help. :-)

Well, that it would be one purpose of a BoF :) Are you planning to
attend the conference?

Cheers,
Andre

> Best regards!
> Vojtch
> 
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