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Packages used for scientific computing #594

Open jurobystricky opened 5 years ago

jurobystricky commented 5 years ago

Just a food for thought. Recently I had a discussion with someone working in scientific computing. They do a lot of heavy duty CPU intensive numerical processing, so Clear Linux should be/could be their default Linux distribution. However, there is a number of packages that are very frequently used but don't seem to be available by Clear, for example:

I believe all of them are open source (although not necessarily easy to build). I am aware that "julia" was requested explicitly a while ago. I listed the other packages as something to ponder in the future.

ahkok commented 5 years ago

octave is already packaged.

DavidKz commented 5 years ago

This is similar to my request in #577. I was in the process of looking at Sagemath components, as well as software in Fedora Scientific Workstation, to prioritize requests based on what would benefit most from optimization. I was trying to build a few libraries locally until #574 literally ended any use of bare metal Clear for me. It was a fun ride!

lebensterben commented 5 years ago

It would be really nice if Julia is added, which was requested in #126.

DavidKz commented 5 years ago

Pinging issue #126 asking for Julia update might be helpful. These multi-package threads tend to conflate the importance of items in the list.

jurobystricky commented 4 years ago

bundle ParaView is now available (since biuld 31540)