Greetings, and thanks for your initiative here! You know, while I agree that being able to easily find parallel packages is a desirable feature for Debian, I'm really not sure that the 'weight' of the parallel computing function deserves a separate section. What about other special applications of Debian Linux? Should there be a "high availability" section, or a "load-balancing web server" section?
I do think something is in order, but perhaps I'd suggest looking at the "package pool" idea being implemented now. The disadvantage here is that this probably won't be ready for the next release. But in the long run, the idea of having a database suggest a list of packages for a given use seems much more flexible, and doesn't put too much weight on the "computational clustering" functionality, as important as that might be to us personally. Anyway, just an idea. There are a number of packages available now, but I'd guess there number would be from 10-20. I haven't made an exhaustive survey, though. Here are the ones I know of (several subpackages in each category): LAM MPICH SCALAPACK BLAS ATLAS various bandwidth testing utilities, though these have broader applicability. Take care, Marco Mililotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi to everyone in the ML... > In a previous talk, I proposed to put all the Beowulf stuff in a new > separate category. I proposed the same to the devel ML, but seems that we > need a good reason to separate things (and this is ok). May the good > reason be "the number of packages available"?? Of course if we have a > certain number of packages specifically for Beowulf clusters, it will be > usefull and desiderable (?) to separate things. So some of you can tell me > how many packages we have that could be put in this (now virtual) > category?? > > Or, better, have you any comment/suggestion ??? > > Bye, > tnx > > -- Marco Mililotti > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
