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

2011/7/19 Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]>
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> Hi
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> Dne 18.7.2011 19:23, Andre Massing napsal(a):
> > On 07/18/2011 06:02 PM, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> >> Hi
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> >> Dne 18.7.2011 17:34, Andre Massing napsal(a):
> >>> Hi there!
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> >>> 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 packages which are interested in  my SC corner are either outdated or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:
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> >>> openmpi  outdated (1.2.8)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?
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Andre
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> >> 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/
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> > 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?
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> 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
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> >> There also has been some
> >> extensive discussion on openFATE, see for example
> >> https://features.opensuse.org/query/tag?tag=scientific
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> > 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.
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> As I see the list, I should add some software... But might be a wiki
> page would be easier to maintain...
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> >> 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?
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> Unfortunately not, I'm to busy with my Ph.D... :-(
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> > Cheers,
> > Andre
> >
> >> Best regards!
> >> Vojt ch
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> Have a nice day!
> Vojtěch

Hi!

I was very active on that openFate when it started. Also compiled a
part of the software lists available in there. Unfortunatelly,
openfate never screamed loud enough. :(

Anyway, You can count me on any project in order to try to push
forward more scietific programs on Suse! Unfortunatelly, as someone
mentioned, I'm also listed as one that doesn't know all the tricks on
making .rpm files or it's way into OBS. In any case, I'm available for
testing! ;)

Let's hope this really works this time! ;)

Jones