On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 04:23:27PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
I was hoping to get the attention of folks from the HPC SIG to help me craft a message to take to an HPC event that I'll be attending soon - ISC-HPC in Frankfurt. I expect that you're aware of it.
Yes. I will probably also be there at the OpenHPC booth.
Last year, I got questions regarding what's happening in the HPC SIG in CentOS, and I know at that time it was still fairly young. I was hoping to get something from you - whether bullet points, a blog post, a video I should watch, or whatever - so that this year I will be better informed, and can answer questions intelligently about what's happening in HPC in CentOS.
I see just one email to this list, from back in October, from Adrian Reber, about the first SIG meeting, but nothing since then. Are you having regular meetings that I should attend between now and June?
Thanks for any info you can pass my way.
Unfortunately there is not much, and I am not really sure about the goals of the HPC SIG. I initially started to build the OpenHPC packages in CBS and was able to successfully build all the packages for x86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le.
My goal was to provide the OpenHPC packages built with devtoolset-7 for a better integration into the distribution. So while this would work I am not sure it makes sense to divide the OpenHPC users between builds from CBS and directly from OpenHPC. Having it via CentOS would make it easier for the users to enable those packages and it would also benefit from the large mirror network, but I am not sure it actually benefit the OpenHPC project. OpenHPC not just builds for CentOS but also for SLES and they also, in addition to gcc, provide builds with the Intel and ARM compiler.
It would be possible to provide a base set of OpenHPC packages directly via a CentOS add-on repository, but as long as there is no buy-in from the OpenHPC community, which is unlikely due to the reasons above, I am not sure if it is useful instead of telling the users to just go directly to OpenHPC.
I guess, this is not the answer you were hoping for.
Adrian