Provide popular HPC-BC packages, ensure they are available as a meta-module

[boegel]

(originally by @fgeorgatos)

Many are already covered really: http://www.ccac.hpc.mil/consolidated/bc/policy.php

Namely, care for: FY06-01 (almost done), FY07-02 (UNITE can help in this), FY10-02 (almost done).

[boegel]

Moved from easybuilders/easybuild-framework#236

[fgeorgatos]

Status update, as of v1.4.0:

Many are already covered really: http://www.ccac.hpc.mil/consolidated/bc/policy.php

Namely, care for: FY06-01 (almost done), FY07-02 (UNITE can help in this), FY10-02 (almost done).

FY06-01: Common Set of Open Source Math Libraries

• ARPACK: Solution of Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors; ref. add support for ARPACK-ng #97
• FFTW: Library for computing Discrete Fourier Transforms
  • Both MPI and non-MPI versions should be maintained
• PETSc: Suite of scientific computing routines
• SuperLU: Direct solution of sparse linear systems of equations
• LAPACK: Software library of numerical linear algebra routines
• ScaLAPACK: Subset of parallelized LAPACK routines
• BLAS: Basic linear algebra routines (ATLAS, GotoBLAS)
• GSL: C/C++ library with a wide variety of mathematical routines

FY07-02: Common Open Source Performance and Profiling Tools

• PAPI: Consistent interface to hardware counters and events
• SCALASCA: Scalable trace analysis package # should come via UNITE
• TAU: Performance analysis of parallel applications # should come via UNITE
  • (PDT: Source-level auto-instrumentation, Support for PAPI and SCALASCA)
• Valgrind: Memory management analysis and profiling

FY10-02: Common Open Source High Productivity Languages

• Python (General Purpose Scripting Language)
• NumPy (Numerical Arrays and Linear Algebra in Python)
• PyMPI (Python Message Passing Interface) # mpi4py is available as of v1.5 and more modern for this facility
• SciPy (Scientific Python)
• Octave (MATLAB Clone) # FG: see PR: [goolf/1.4.10, ictce/5.3.0] octave* (DROP) easybuild-easyconfigs#196
• Matplotlib (Scientific 2-D and 3-D Plotting)

[branfosj]

This is over ten years old and the original website linked to is not working. If someone has sufficient motivation for making this happen then they can open a fresh version of this issue for the latest version and actively contribute any remaining items.