Dirk I am not really interested (at the moment) but Petsc 3.0 in Debian is compiled with sprng support (I CC Adam Powell the maintainer of Petsc) but Petsc cannot find the proper MPI sprng routine.
Adam should we disable sprng support in Petsc ? with this Petsc 3.0 is still broken in Debian Best regards C. On Monday 18 May 2009 16:21:29 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 18 May 2009 at 15:50, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > | Package: sprng > | Severity: wishlist > | > | --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > | Hi Dirk > | > | it seems there exists a sprng4 (which uses the autoconf/automake/libtool) > | and in debian only sprng2 is available. > | Moreover it seems that sprng has support for MPI, would it be possible to > | add mpi support ? > | > | Unfortunately sprng has not been updated wrt recent version of g++ (4.3 > | and 4.4) > > sprng is, politely speaking, a mess. > > I forced my way around sprng2 with some help from others (to make it create > a shared library) as I needed a distributed random number generator for use > by R with the snow (r-cran-snow) framework for distributed computing. I > never used sprng as a library. > > I am aware that there are newer versions, and I have at times tried, and > failed, to package them. Would you like to tackle this jointly? > > Otherwise, from R's side there is another parallel rng provided by > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlecuyer/index.html > > Pierre L'Ecuyer is quite well known for RNG work, maybe his code would > suitable for a general purpose library too ? I have been thinking about > packaging this and the retiring r-cran-rsprng and the sprng package. > > Thought or comments? > > Dirk > > | Best regards > | C. > | > | --- System information. --- > | Architecture: amd64 > | Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 > | > | Debian Release: squeeze/sid > | 500 unstable ftp.fr.debian.org > | 500 stable volatile.debian.org > | 500 stable security.debian.org > | 500 stable ftp.fr.debian.org > | > | --- Package information. --- > | Package's Depends field is empty. > | > | Package's Recommends field is empty. > | > | Package's Suggests field is empty. > | > | > | > | > | -- > | Christophe Prud'homme > | Universit de Grenoble christophe.prudho...@ujf-grenoble.fr > | LJK - Room 55 Tel: +33476635497 > | 51, rue des Math matiques Fax: +33476631263 > | BP53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 > | <http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Christophe.Prudhomme/> -- Christophe Prud'homme Université de Grenoble christophe.prudho...@ujf-grenoble.fr LJK - Room 55 Tel: +33476635497 51, rue des Mathématiques Fax: +33476631263 BP53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 <http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Christophe.Prudhomme/>
