Hi Greg

Being an Engineer, possible name for engineering packages would be
Engineering or Physics, I would like to see Calculix/Calculix Graphix (
http://www.calculix.de/), OpenFOAM (http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/),
BRLCAD (http://brlcad.org/d/) , Dakota (http://www.cs.sandia.gov/dakota/),
Code Saturne, Syrthes, Salome Platform, (
http://research.edf.com/the-edf-offers/research-and-development/softwares-107001.html)
Scilab, Octave/QtOctave/Octave Forge, Paraview
(http://www.paraview.org/,9 GMSH (
http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/), Netgen, Code Aster (
http://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique1), ....with these packages I
guess a great deal of mechanical/civil structural engineering work can be
done...

And the name "Scientific Linux" would be fully justiified...  :-)

BRGDS

Alex

2009/9/29 Markus Neteler <[log in to unmask]>

> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:04, Greg Kurtzer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working already to create a repository of scientific packages to
> > integrate with SL. If there are special requests (or better yet,
> > people that wish to help with packaging and maintenance), please let
> > me know.
> >
> > We have some packages already in SCM (autobuilder hasn't been
> > configured to build these yet), but it will still a bit before we can
> > get these released (again, nudging for some volunteers with scientific
> > app and RPM experience (or wanting to learn)).
> >
> > http://www.infiscale.org/scire/
>
> it would be great to get GRASS GIS (requires GDAL and PROJ4) packaged
> for ScientificLinux:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/
>
> In our community we receive often such request. I can help of course if
> needed.
>
> Packaging notes are available at:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install
>
> Section would be "Geo".
>
> Best
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus Neteler
> Foundation Edmund Mach (FEM) - Research and Innovation Centre
> Environment and Natural Resources Area
> Head of GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Trento, Italy
> Web:  http://gis.fem-environment.eu/
> Email: neteler AT cealp.it
> Book: http://www.grassbook.org/
>