I may have mentioned this before, but SCOTCH and ParMetis are available 
as packages for Debian and the upcoming Ubuntu release (Intrepid), 
although the build system test for SCOTCH needs to be enhanced to pick 
it up. ParaView has also been packaged.

Garth

Anders Logg wrote:
> FYI: SCOTCH can now do parallel graph partitioning (haven't tried it yet).
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Scotch 5.1 is out!
> From:
> François PELLEGRINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:27:41 +0200
> To:
> "N.A. DIGEST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> To:
> "N.A. DIGEST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC:
> François PELLEGRINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> We announce  the  release, as  libre/free software,  of revision 5.1  of 
> the
> SCOTCH  and  PT-SCOTCH  software  package  and  library  for  sequential 
> and
> parallel  graph  partitioning,  sequential mesh/hypergraph  partitioning 
> and
> static mapping, and sequential and parallel sparse matrix block ordering.
> 
> Important features
> ==================
> 
> PT-Scotch  now provides  an interface  for parallel  graph  partitioning 
> and
> static mapping. At the time  being, target architectures other than 
> complete
> graphs, whether weighted or not, are  not taken into account, such that 
> only
> parallel graph partitioning is available, not  full parallel static 
> mapping.
> Parallel static mapping will be available in a future release.
> 
> Parallel graph partitioning is performed  to date by the  means of 
> recursive
> parallel  graph bipartitioning, not direct k-way partitioning.  
> PT-Scotch is
> therefore slower  than direct parallel  k-way partitioners,  yet yields 
> high
> quality partitions.
> 
> 
> What is SCOTCH
> ==============
> 
> SCOTCH is a project carried out at the Laboratoire Bordelais de 
> Recherche en
> Informatique (LaBRI) of the Universite Bordeaux I.
> It is part of project ScAlApplix  of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest. Its 
> goal is
> to apply graph theory, with a ``divide and conquer'' approach, to 
> scientific
> computing problems  such as graph  partitioning,  static mapping, and 
> sparse
> matrix ordering.
> 
> 
> How to get SCOTCH
> =================
> 
> Scotch can be freely  downloaded, under  the terms of the  CeCILL-C 
> license.
> To ease the development, diffusion, and circulation of information 
> regarding
> the SCOTCH project, most of its resources  are now hosted on the 
> InriaGforge
> platform provided by INRIA. Please refer to the SCOTCH web page at :
> 
> http://www.labri.fr/~pelegrin/scotch/
> 
> for more information. People interested in the SCOTCH project are 
> welcome to
> subscribe to the "scotch-announces" mailing list at :
> 
> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/scotch-announces
> 
> 
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