Bug#961186: scalapack: provide a 64-bit build

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Thu May 21 04:42:37 BST 2020


Source: scalapack
Severity: normal

We're discussing introducing a 64 bit-build for the computational
stack. This refers to 64-bit addressing to cells in meshes, etc.

c.f. Bug#953116 (petsc)
Bug#961108 (openmpi)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2020/05/msg00051.html

BLAS is already 64-bit enabled.

For the 64-bit environment to work, it needs to be carried through all
along the library stack, from BLAS to PETSc.

MUMPS is in the middle, and depends on scalapack (and blas/lapack).

It's not clear that scalapack needs a direct 64-bit build as such.
It has no 64-bit build flag.  But it does depend on blas/lapack, so
scalapack will need separate builds to catch the 32-bit and 64-bit
blas (and MPI) builds.

Probably we want 2 separate builds, 32-bit (the current
libscalapack-mpi-dev) and a separate 64-bit libscalapack64-mpi-dev
(with openmpi/mpich variants)

Opening this bug to track the chain of 64-bit package dependencies.



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