HPC Leaders Form OpenHPC Collaborative Project

The Linux Foundation, an organization dedicated to accelerating Linux adoption and collaborative development, has helped form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project at SC15. This consortium will work to provide a new, open-source framework to support HPC (high-performance computing) environments.

The framework, according to the organization, will consist of upstream product components, tools and interconnections to enable the software stack. This community plans on providing an integrated and validated collection of HPC components that can offer a full-featured reference HPC software stack for developers, system administrators and users.

The outline of OpenHPC is to:

• Create a stable environment for testing and validation;
• Reduce costs;
• Provide a robust and diverse open-source software stack;
• Develop a flexible framework for configuration.

“The use of open source software is central to HPC, but lack of a unified community across key stakeholders – academic institutions, workload management companies, software vendors, computing leaders – has caused duplication of effort and has increased the barrier to entry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “OpenHPC will provide a neutral forum to develop an open source framework that satisfies a diverse set of cluster environment use-cases.”

The new initiative includes support from Allinea Software, Altair, ANSYS, Argonne National Laboratory, Atos, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, The Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies at Indiana University, Cray, Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA, Dell, Fujitsu Systems Europe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel Corporation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Lenovo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MSC Software, NEC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ParTec, Penguin Computing, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Sandia National Laboratories, SENAI CIMATEC, SUSE and Texas Advanced Computing Center.

For more information, visit the OpenHPC Collaborative.

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