[Debichem-devel] scalapack 2.0 now in experimental

[Graham Inggs]

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