Known users from DebianScience listed in parenthesis.
Parallel/distributed computing
Libraries
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/10/msg00137.html for a discussion on the merits of these (suggesting migrating to OpenMPI).
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openmpi.html Open MPI] ([http://www.open-mpi.org/ upstream]) high performance message passing library.
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mpich.html mpich] ([http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/ upstream]) MPI parallel computing system implementation
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lam.html lam] Upstream recommends migrating to OpenMPI.
Other
[http://packages.debian.org/sid/pvm pvm] ([http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/ upstream]) Parallel Virtual Machine is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer.
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/petsc.html petsc] PETSc is the "Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation", a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations.
- ["BOINC"] Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
- ["pkg-escience"] Debian eScience with myGrid and Taverna
Programming tools for science already packaged in Debian
emacs ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00002.html Andre Lehovich])
g++ ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])
kdevelop ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00006.html Helen Faulkner])
wxwidgets ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00006.html Helen Faulkner])
- gfortran
- yorick (interpreted language, support for compiled plug-ins, numerical computations and data display)
Debuging tools
- DDD
- dmalloc
- valgrind
Profiling tools
gprof ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])
memprof ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])
mpatrol ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])
Python
wxpython ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00124.html JD Rogers])
Perl
PDL [upstream http:''/pdl.perl.org/] ([Andreas Letsch http:''/lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00126.html])