On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Alin Marin Elena
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org