Scientific Gentoo Project

1.  Project Description

The Scientific Gentoo project manages science related activities in Gentoo as well as maintains packages that belong to sci herd (mostly grouped under app-sci category).

2.  Project Goals

Scientific Gentoo's purpose is to create an easy way for scientific community to use Gentoo Linux to their advantage and to also make it easy to contribute back, should such desire emerge. The project strives to provide a powerfull set of scientific packages as well as wide configurability options that users of Gentoo have come to expect. Additional goals of Scientific Gentoo are to create and maintain relevant documentation as well as to organize activities related to both science and Gentoo.

3.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4.  Resources

Resources offered by the Scientific Gentoo project are:

• New BLAS/LAPACK infrastructure - guide on using multiple implementations.
• Mailinglist Archive
• Official IRC Channel of the Scientific Gentoo Project
• Official overlay of the Scientific Gentoo Project