Quantian: tudományos számítástechnikai környezet

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Úgy látszik, hogy a KNOPPIX feldolgozások idejét éljük. A múlt héten számoltam be a ClusterKnoppix-ról, amelyből könnyedén építhetünk OpenMosix fürtöt, most pedig egy újabb KNOPPIX remake kopogtat az ajtón. Dirk Eddelbuettel bejelentése szerint elindult egy projekt, amelynek a célja egy olyan KNOPPIX alapú terjesztés létrehozása, amely elsősorban a tudományos számításokat, kutatásokat támogatná. A terjesztés egy tudományos számítástechnikai környezetet akar a felhasználók gépére varázsolni.

Projekt honlap itt.

ISO image itt és itt.



Dirk levele:From: Dirk Eddelbuettel

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org

Subject: [ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing

Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:40:32 -0500

Cc: dwn@debian.org

[ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.

Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]

Announcing the "Quantian Scientific Computing Environment"

A Knoppix / Debian variant tailored to

numerical and quantitative analysis

Quantian is a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring bootable cdrom

that turns any pc or laptop into a full-featured Linux workstation. This

version is based on Knoppix 3.2 (2003-05-20), an earlier release based on

Knoppix 3.1 (2003-01-20) is still available; see below for URLs.

Quantian differs from Knoppix by adding a set of programs of interest to

applied or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields. The

added programs include

o R, including several add-on packages (such as tseries, RODBC, coda,

mcmcpack, gtkdevice, rgtk, rquantlib), out-of-the box support for the

powerful ESS modes for Emacs as well as the Ggobi visualisation program

o Octave with add-on packages octave-forge, octave-sp, octave-epstk,

matwrap and Inline::Octave

o Maxima, including the x11 front-end and emacs support

o the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) incl example binaries

o the Pari/GP, Gap, Ginac and Yacas computer algebra systems

o the Quantlib quantitative finance library incl. the Python interface

o the OpenDX and Mayavi data visualization systems

o TeXmacs for wysiwyg (La)TeX editing

o and various other programs such apcalc, aribas, autoclass, euler, evolver,

freefem, gambit, geg, geomview, glpk, gnuplot, gperiodic, gmt, gretl,

lp-solve, mcl, multimix, rasmol, plotutils, pgapack, pspp, pdl, rcalc,

yorick and xlispstat

while at the same time retaining programs and features already in Knoppix

o Auto-configuration of graphics, sound, disks, networking, auxiliary

devices which is second to none among computer installations

o The current version 3.1 of the KDE desktop environment

o The GNU compiler suite comprising gcc, g77, g++ compilers

in releases 2.95, 3.2 and 3.3 as well as gcj in version 3.2

o Perl and Python with loads of add-ons, plus ruby, tcl, ...

o The Emacs and Vim editors, as well as kate, joe, kate, nedit and zile

o A complete teTeX TeX and LaTeX setup for scientific publishing

o Gnumeric, Abiword, Koffice, ... office tools

o a Swiss-army knife collection of networking tools allowing access

to wired and wireless lans, covering ethernet, isdn or dial-up modems

In total, over 1200 Debian packages are included.

Quantian iso images are available at

http://software.biostat.washington.edu/edd/quantian/

http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/~edd/quantian/

and a Quantian overview page, including a recent paper, is at

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

Plans for future versions are not set in stone but may entail support for

OpenMosix clustering. Comments, questions, feedback are more than welcome!

-- Dirk Eddelbuettel Tue, 27 May 2003 21:27:40 -0500


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