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

2011/7/19 Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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packages which are interested in  my SC corner are either outdated or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openmpi  outdated (1.2.8)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!
Vojt ch


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
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