[CentOS-devel] [!HPC] Request to join HPC Sig

Hello,

Please let me introduce myself. I am Beth Lynn Eicher with the FAS username of bethlynn. My background is a career in engineering systems deployments in research computing. I have worked at the Carnegie Mellon University, the Department of Energy, and the University of Chicago. Currently, I am a High Performance Computing consultant with clients like Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the University of Wyoming. There, I worked with Bridges, an XSEDE participating site.

Bridges uses CentOS 7 as do many other large installations. If you look at the top500, CentOS is the most popular named distribution. I hypothesize that CentOS is in the majority of the overall market share. It is a solid choice for all HPC systems.

The tools for use with HPC are often built by our greater community but seldom packaged by EPEL. I am unware of rpm builds for the following Free Software projects:
https://github.com/OSC/Open-OnDemand
https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh
https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tutorials/multifactor-authentication
https://github.com/TACC/Lmod

As an industry contributor from a small company, I am unencumbered by institutional politics which may cause reluctance to collaboration.   Therefore, I believe that I would be a very useful contributor to a HPC SIG within the CentOS community.

Yesterday, I spoke about cybersecurity in HPC at the CentOS Dojo. There we had a significant amount of energy around HPC and I would like to see this conversation continue. Today, I sought out the HPC SIG of CentOS. While there is evidence of activity, I have not seen anything more recent than Fall of 2017. Where is everybody?

Thanks,

Beth Lynn Eicher
Arcutek | Solutions Consultant
beicher at arcutek.com<mailto:beicher at arcutek.com>
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M: 312-566-8947

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