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Sci-Tech Special Interest Group
Mission
The purpose of the Fedora Sci-Tech SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.
Packagers/Reviewers/People interested
- EdHill
- JasonTibbitts
- DejiAkingunola
- GerardMilmeister
- OrionPoplawski
- QuentinSpencer
- ChitleshGoorah
- Dominik Mierzejewski
- JoseMatos
- RexDieter
- PeterLemenkov
- PatriceDumas
- FabianAffolter
- SergioPascual
- Alex Lancaster
- MarekMahut
- StuartCampbell
- Kevin Kofler
- PierreYvesChibon
- ChristianIseli
- EricTanguy
- Jerry James
- NicolaSoranzo
Documentation
- UsingMultipleMPIs - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
Packages awaiting review
- MPICH2: #171993
- vaspview - VASP Data Viewer #444763
- gromacs - Molecular dynamics package #249831
- automaton - Java finite state automata/regular expression library #394871
Potential Packages
- GAP - Computer algebra system - JasonTibbitts has a working and up-to-date GAP package in http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/gap, but it needs significant cleanup before it has a chance of passing review.
- ROOT - High energy physics data analysis package - http://root.cern.ch/
- SAGE Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ( SAGE packaging discussion )
- ITK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit - software system to support the Visible Human Project
- Trilinos - Collection of packages that support parallel linear algebra computations, solution of linear, non-linear and eigen systems of equations and related capabilities. (LGPLv2+)
Bioinformatics WishList
Available Packages
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