Greetings! Just saw an endorsement on the main beowulf list of SuSe's
collection of packages. I thought I'd list them here and solicit any
comments about their utility, there Debian status, and any
improvements/additions we could make. I've filled in my
opinions/first hand experience below. What I'd love to hear are
what people themselves have found most beneficial in productive
cluster work. I'm sure many more of these are in Debian than I've
listed, and that many other packages not on this list should be
included, but I'd hope to have them filled in from those with
first-hand experience.
It would also be great if we could put a little blurb out on ou
webpage touting what we feel are Debian's strongpoints in this area
for the new release.
Package: Debian: Utility Improvements:
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bwatch
dqs
fftw
lam Yes Critical Better documentation/
lamman Yes Critical tutorials?
lamnew Yes Critical
lapckman Yes (out Important Try to get unstable
of date in version in frozen?
frozen)
mpiblacs Yes Important
mpich Yes Critical Need new mpich maintainer/
mpichman Yes Critical new shared library version?
mpsclpck Yes Important Have for 2 mpi flavors
and pvm! Many new
lapack-3.0 routines
not yet in scalapack,
would be great to add
dstegr, et al., for
example
netboot
nlamman Yes Critical
pmbdoc
pmblam
pmbmpich
ppmake
pvm
pvmpov
queue
saltadd
saltadm
saltdoc
salthdw
slbench No Bragging I've got a version compiled,
rights :-) could submit quickly if
thought useful
xmpi Yes Moderately
xpvm
Not on the SuSE list:
netpipe Yes Important
blas Yes Important
atlas Yes Important New kni/prefetch based
improvements for PIII
on the way!
