On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 11:41:32AM -0700, Paul Graydon wrote:
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 far as I am aware, I am the only 'active' person in the HPC SIG and have not seen any further HPC discussions.
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.
Right now I still think that OpenHPC is a very good starting point to collaborate on HPC packages for CentOS. Especially if you are interested in bringing in additional packages like GROMACs.
I am also happy to help any other HPC efforts around CentOS. So if you have any ideas how to better integrate HPC into CentOS let me (us) know.
Adrian