[SciPy-Dev] wrapper for Scalapack

[Joshua Wilson]

Just off the cuff I'd guess that the BLACS dependency would make it
very difficult to support Scalapack in SciPy proper.

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 8:45 AM, marc <marc.barbry at mailoo.org> wrote:
> Dear Scipy developers,
>
> We are actually writing a python wrapper for Scalapack that seems to be
> cruelly missing for computational science with Python.
> Since Scipy has already wrappers for Blas and Lapack library we are hoping
> that you could be interested as well in a Scalapack wrapper.
> In this aim, we used f2py to wrap the routine as it is done in the
> Blas/Lapack wrapper of Scipy.
>
> The actual code can be found in the following repository,
> https://gitlab.com/mbarbry/python-scalapack
>
> Since the project just started, only few routines are implemented, but we
> manage to write a working test with sygv routine.
> We would like to know if the Scipy community would be interested to merge
> this wrapper in the Scipy code in the future?
>
> We believe that Scalapack is an important part of the Scientific tools for
> linear algebra, and that Scipy would only benefit of such wrapper as well
> than the Scientific community.
> Contributions to the code are obviously more than welcome.
>
> Best regards,
> Marc Barbry
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