[petsc-dev] Statistics on the popularity of PETSc

[Blaise A Bourdin]

But even this would only count the users who load the TACC provided modules, and not those rebuilding petsc with a specific configuration.

Blaise


> On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>> On , 2020Sep17, at 09:13, Jacob Faibussowitsch <jacob.fai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Victor - Does this count the number of users who simply loaded the module? Or users who submitted a job using the petsc module (if that’s even tracked?). 
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> The latter. It tracks what modules are loaded when a batch job starts. That’s not entirely the same as PETSc actually being used but I guess it’s a pretty close proxy.
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> We track a whole bunch of statistics on batch jobs. (Including hardware performance counters on processors, network, file system. One snapshot per 30 minutes, so it doesn’t interfere too much.) I don’t think we track anything about interactive loading of modules. 
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> Btw, almost 1000 unique users over the lifetime of the database, which goes back to petsc 3.4, whenever that was.
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> Victor.

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