[CentOS-devel] HPC Sig

[Paul Graydon]

On 9/4/18 14:45, Adrian Reber wrote:

> 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.

For EPEL, there is an rpm that made its way in to centos extras to make
it easy for people to install & enable those repositories.  Is that a
good potential way forward for OpenHPC and CentOS (is that even feasible
or a good idea?)

Paul



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