Le Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:54:18AM +0000, Philipp Kern a écrit : > there might not be clusters of arm yet but I saw offers for clusters of mips.
Hi Philipp I also saw this cluster and got quite curious until I realised that most programs I package are not parallelised… The day we are contacted to do some genomics on mips clusters it will be very exciting, but this should come with real support from the groups interested in, let's not forget we are just volunteers. Preparing for this event with no indication whether it could happen or not is risky and in my opinion, prematurate. If we mean to attract such users, I do not think that the best strategy would necessarly be having a pre-existing MIPS support of bioinformatics, which I think is completely beyond our reach and expertise. I think that what would matter would be to have a healthy MIPS port on one side, and be the best distro for bioinformatics on mainstream platforms on the other side. This would be a solid basis to start a collaboration to become a good bioinformatics distro on MIPS. Just because we can build packages is not the best indicator: most of them have no regression tests yet, and a significant number of the build failures I experienced on my packages happen during such tests… So in conclusion (like a broken disk), with a simple modification of dpkg-gencontrol, we can stop building on some architectures some packages which bring them no added value. For new packages, that seems to be enough. For existing packages, maintainers who want to opt-out of some architectures would need to submit a patch against the packages-arch-specific file and sumbit a bunch of dak commands to the release file. This could be consolidated in batches and I can help for this, so that the work load is minimum, compared to the gain for everybody. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org