I suggest to add the following thorns to our standard Einstein Toolkit thorn list:
Web 2.0 technologies for accessing and announcing Cactus simulation results:
ExternalLibraries/curl ExternalLibraries/flickcurl ExternalLibraries/libxml2 LSUThorns/Flickr LSUThorns/Twitter
Interesting run-time statistics:
AEIThorns/SystemStatistics
Useful external libraries:
ExternalLibraries/CGNS ExternalLibraries/HYPRE
Not all these libraries work / can be built on all HPC systems, although they all work on standard Linux systems with gcc or Intel compilers. The simulation factory has an mdb entry "disabled-thorns" that describes which thorns need to be disabled on what system. (These entries are probably not up to date in the Perl version of Simfactory.)
-erik