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

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Hi

Dne 18.7.2011 19:23, Andre Massing napsal(a):
> 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 packages which are interested in  my SC corner are either outdated or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 openmpi  outdated (1.2.8)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 is some work in those project... At least openSUSE Edication
http://opensuse-education.org/ is actively developed, I'm not so sure
about Science and R repos... openSUSE Medical is active, see
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Medical

>> 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.

As I see the list, I should add some software... But might be a wiki
page would be easier to maintain...

>> 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?

Unfortunately not, I'm to busy with my Ph.D... :-(

> Cheers,
> Andre
> 
>> Best regards!
>> Vojtch
> 

Have a nice day!
Vojtěch

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