Re: [petsc-dev] Statistics on the popularity of PETSc

[Victor Eijkhout]

On , 2020Sep17, at 14:06, Blaise A Bourdin 
<bour...@lsu.edu<mailto:bour...@lsu.edu>> wrote:

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

Correct. But that’s a tiny minority.

I think we have a way of detecting people who make their own installation. I 
did that one time to make sure people were not doing

-download-mpich -download-blaslapack

on our systems, and I found only a small number, and they clearly knew what 
they were doing.

Victor.