Hi all,
There was some email conversation on this list a couple of weeks ago about the HPC SIG, but it didn't really seem to go anywhere or have any solid conclusion, other than "join #centos-devel". Between some freenode instability/spam protections etc. some issues with my usual persistent session, and just sheer quantity of conversation happening there, it's somewhat hard to figure out where anything sits. I didn't see any obvious signs of further conversation there, but there's a good chance I missed it. If there was further conversation and someone would be able to point me towards it off list, I'd love to read it.
As a cloud provider that provides high spec bare metal servers to customers, we're finding a lot of usage and interest from customers with various forms of HPC workloads, everything from GROMACs to Hadoop and beyond. CentOS, likewise, continues to be a popular distribution for our customers, across every hardware and virtual machine specification. If there's ideas on how to make HPC better on CentOS, I'd love to be part of the conversation, and see if there are opportunities to help.
Paul