Science ------- Lead: George Shapovalov
Well, even though we are heavily strained for resources (developer time, but who in Gentoo isn't :)) Scientific Gentoo fares along quite well. We just completed a category split, so the immediate goal would be to monitor how it goes for a little while more and, as we accumulate even more packages, to split off a few more categories. Oh, to recruit more people as well of course. Some researchers are becoming so adventurous that they actually propose help maintaining their areas of interest :) . Now that I am becoming more active again I'll issue a few more calls for help, that should get few more people in..
Other goals: finalize fortran.eclass; complete transition to new versions of blas/lapack ebuilds; Adjust involved packages to use new eclass and blas/lapack libs; regular maintaince.
I'd like to step in that team as it is the only team I can actually do something at the moment and I need this for my daily shores.
The current arch I can test *-sci packages are ppc, x86, sparc, alpha we got the OK to get an amd64, and maybe one day we get a ppc64...
I managed to convert 2 scientists, in using exclusively gentoo for number crunchers, and it seems that the disease is contagious as their machine is the only one having good ratio theorical vs practical performance and have the longest uptime without crashes or wierd systematic problems (calculation takes about 3 days to 2 weeks)
I use it in the company so that all archs are quite looking and feeling the same.
Phil
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