[petsc-users] PETSc / GAMG user counts

[Mark Adams]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Paul T. Bauman <ptbauman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe relevant pubs/bibtex could be added alongside the PETSc ones on the
> PETSc webpage to help this? (Shame on me, but is there a relevant GAMG
> publication?) It doesn't help with the disingenuous researcher not willing
> to go the extra step of proper citation, but would certainly help someone
> like me that wants to do right. E.g. in this case, I would specifically
> cite GAMG as well as PETSc.
>

I am writing one today as a matter of fact, with Peter, Toby and Garth.  I
will need to remember to get this into the web page when it is accepted.


>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Jul 15, 2015, at 6:53 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > Where is this list of (known) apps?
>>
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/publications/index.html
>>
>> but we don't keep it up to date anymore because it is a manual process to
>> find new publications and add their bibtex entries. Thus we mostly just
>> point to google scholar for recent stuff.
>>
>>   Verifying someone uses a particular part of PETSc (like GAMG) is
>> difficult because you need to locate their publication and see if they
>> mention it in the text (which often they will not do) or if they sent some
>> email and mentioned using it. I've played with the idea of PETSc programs
>> automatically sending back what solvers they use but for some reason some
>> PETSc developers get paranoid about collecting this kind of information :-).
>>
>>   Just count the number of email threads that have GAMG in the text and
>> give that number to David Brown :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>   Barry
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>> > Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> writes:
>> >
>> > > Do we have any data with respect to the number of PETSc users?
>> Better yet
>> > > number of GAMG users?
>> >
>> > Mailing list statistics, downstream software packages, papers, and
>> > commits.
>> >
>> > We don't spy on users, so just measure products that are made public.
>> >
>>
>>
>
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