> Xavier Grave writes: >> Very soon I will start to package two software used in our lab : NARVAL >> [1] and ENX [2]. >> I would like to know if these packages can be of interest to the Debian >> Science community and so be hosted by Debian (in Squeeze + 1) or if it >> is better to have our own server. > [...] >> [1] http://narval.in2p3.fr >> [2] http://enx.in2p3.fr > > I think it would help the debian-science team if you would explain the hardware > requirements for NARVAL and ENX.
NARVAL is used to read/process data from different kind of electronic boards. In the first versions of NARVAL, only VME boards were supported, and that required specialised hardware : - VME Crate - VME boards for detector readout - VME CPU boards Now, NARVAL supports also PCI, USB boards, and most of what you have a linux driver for. So to run NARVAL to acquire data, now one can start with a standard PC. It is used for example for the students nuclear seminar we host in our lab (one PC + one PCI board to get data from a very simple setup). NARVAL is also used to replay experiment on PC farms constituted of about 30 1U PCs (so called pizza boxes), which except the 1U format are standard PC. > I think that, if they require bespoke hardware not available to the general > public, including them in Debian would not be such a good idea. If they can run > on the lay man's personal computer or with inexpensive specialized hardware, > then OK. See also My idea to have NARVAL related to debian-science was to ease promote Debian in science area where for the moment we have Scientific Linux. In return NARVAL hosted in Debian as binary packages will also help people to accept Ada software because they don't have any more the excuse about not knowing how to compile and so on... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
