-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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switch to this distribution I discovered that quite some packages which are interested in my SC corner are either outdated or not available in the *official* repos.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openmpi outdated (1.2.8) libatlas (none) mayavi and enthought related packages (none) python-scipy (none) paraview petsc,trilinos, armadillo (none) netgen, tetgen, triangle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
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