Difference between revisions of "SuSE 10.3 workstation image"

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* ATLAS (I am prepared to install the precompiled ATLAS package but cannot tune it for every machine as there is too much variety)
 
* ATLAS (I am prepared to install the precompiled ATLAS package but cannot tune it for every machine as there is too much variety)
   
== Packages dropped since 10.2 ==
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== Packages proposed for dropping ==
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=== Python ===
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* Biopython (on the grounds that only one person ever asked for it and they have left)

Revision as of 15:59, 30 June 2008

It is time to produce a spec for the next generation of the workstation image. This is to be based on SuSE 10.3 as 11.0 is too new for compiler support. We also considered Ubuntu, but the autoinstall tools for it are not yet good enough.

Supported packages

Compilers

  • Intel 10.0 and up
  • Portland
  • NAG
  • Pathscale

Desktops

  • GNOME

Maths libraries

  • Intel MKL 10.0 and up
  • ACML 4.0
  • FFTW3 (untuned, part of SuSE)

MPI libraries

  • OpenMPI

Python modules

Visualisation

Installed but not supported

Databases

  • Cambridge Structural Database

Desktops

  • KDE
  • fvwm

Maths libraries

  • ATLAS (I am prepared to install the precompiled ATLAS package but cannot tune it for every machine as there is too much variety)

Packages proposed for dropping

Python

  • Biopython (on the grounds that only one person ever asked for it and they have left)