Re: scalapack 2.0 now in experimental

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

The scalapack 2 transition is now live, uploaded to unstable.

Drew


On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 11:05 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Drew
> 
> On 19/07/2017 17:06, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > scalapack 2.0 is now available in experimental.  It's quite a big
> > transition (absorbing blacs, most notably) so we'll want to test
> > dependent packages before dropping it into unstable.  We need to
> > check
> > the transition from blacs to scalapack is smooth.
> > 
> > Can you tell us (or commit to the scalapack git directly) if we
> > need
> > any tweaks to keep elpa, c2pk and espresso happy?
> > 
> > scalapack now builds with cmake and we may want to change the way
> > we
> > install its cmake scripts. pkg-config also.  We've built both
> > openmpi
> > and mpich versions.
> 
> Thanks for your work on this!
> 
> I plan to enable scalapack support in gpaw soon (it requires >=
> 2.0.1) 
> and will let you know if any tweaks are required.
> 
> Regards
> Graham
>