[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Statistics on the popularity of PETSc

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Fredrik Heffer Valdmanis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you guys have any recent up-to-date numbers on for instance:
> >
> > - The number of PETSc downloads per month
> > - The number of projects that use PETSc
> > - The number of users of PETSc
> >
> > or anything else that may be used when discussing the popularity of
> PETSc?
> > I have seen some numbers on Matt's home page regarding hits on Google,
> > references on Google Books etc., so I can easily get updated such numbers
> > myself, but I would greatly appreciate it if you have anything to share
> > with me.
>
> I have the following statistics..
>
> [2011] Total petsc tarball downloads                : 43335
> [2011] Unique machines requesting tarball downloads : 12979
> [Today]Total unique e-mail ids in mailing lists     :  1138
>
> Regarding projects using PETSc - we have some incomplete info at:
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/publications/index.html


We need this all the time. Can we put this somewhere we can all find it,
maybe with a methodology description.

  Thanks,

     Matt


>
> Satish
>



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