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Fedora Science and Technology SIG

Mission

The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.

Packagers/Reviewers/People interested

Documentation

UsingMultipleMPIs - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.

Packages awaiting review

ROOT - High energy physics data analysis package #451744
Trilinos - Collection of packages that support parallel linear algebra computations, solution of linear, non-linear and eigen systems of equations and related capabilities. #453703
open64 - The Open64 compiler collection #470830
pypar - Parallel programming with Python #487521
Gri - GRI scientific plotting language #484386
STXXL - STXXL extra large C++ Standard Template Library implementation #474787
scilab - Scilab numerical computing and data processing environment #472639
Armadillo - template C++ linear algebra library with good balance of speed/ease of use #489686

Potential Packages

Asana Math font
GAP - Computer algebra system - JasonTibbitts has a working and up-to-date GAP package, but it needs significant cleanup before it has a chance of passing review.
Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux.
ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit - software system to support the Visible Human Project
SAGE Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ( SAGE packaging discussion )
XPP - A tool for solving differential equations - Jason Tibbitts has a working package, but the program has such a poor interface that it may not be worth adding to the distro
Neuron - A simulator of neurons and networks, useful for computational biology. Packages are available upstream; shouldn't be terribly hard to package properly but requires a truly ancient user interface toolkit.
Ball and BALLView - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.

Bioinformatics WishList

Bioinformatics WishList

Available Packages

List of scientific/engineering packages

List of applications we will NOT package

Non-commercial clauses in applications licenses render them invalid for inclusion into Fedora Package Collection. Such apps are not Free and open source software and violates Clause 6 of the OSI definition. See an example of such clause:

This software may be copied and distributed for educational, research, and not
for profit purposes provided that this copyright and statement are included in
all such copies.  Other copyrights may also apply.

Name	Description	Why it won't be packaged
VMD	Molecular Visualization and Analysis Package	Non-Free license
fasta2 and fasta3	The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences	License contains non-commercial clause
foo	bar app	patented

Ideas/Proposals

SAGE packaging discussion
MPI work:
Use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation -- please see the proposal at the bottom of EdHill

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Pages in category "SciTech SIG"

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 * [http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/xpp/xpp.html XPP] - A tool for solving differential equations - Jason Tibbitts has a working package, but the program has such a poor interface that it may not be worth adding to the distro
 * [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ Neuron] - A simulator of neurons and networks, useful for computational biology.  Packages are available upstream; shouldn't be terribly hard to package properly but requires a truly ancient user interface toolkit.
+* [http://www.ballview.org/ Ball and BALLView] - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.
 == Bioinformatics WishList ==

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