[CentOS-devel] HPC Sig

[Adrian Reber]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 07:53:05AM -0700, Paul Graydon wrote:
> 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?)

Not sure if this discussion belongs here... If the package is already
part of EPEL I am not sure it needs to be part of OpenHPC. It could if
you need the additional features OpenHPC provides. From my point of view
the advantages of OpenHPC are the integration of packages in a way
common for HPC sites, for all arches and operating systems OpenHPC
supports. This makes it easier for OpenHPC users to easily figure out
the available software. In addition, which is even more CentOS
unrelated, OpenHPC also provides packages compiled with proprietary (ARM
and Intel) compilers (which is also common for HPC sites).

Let us discuss this special topic off-list or on the OpenHPC side.

		Adrian
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