On 04/27/2018 09:00 AM, Adrian Reber wrote: > 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. It is, in the sense that I wanted to know what's happening, and where to point people. While I'd like to have more of a CentOS spin to the story, what really matters is that the users are getting what they need. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com @RDOcommunity // @CentOSProject // @rbowen