OpenHPC

2015: Announcement of OpenHPC

In November, 2015 the non-profit organization Linux Foundation announced creation of the open project on development of supercalculations based on Linux. The initiative under the name OpenHPC Collaborative Project was supported by several large producers of cluster systems, the leading scientific laboratories and supercomputer centers and also IT companies, turning on Cray Dell Fujitsu HP Intel Lenovo, NEC and SUSE.

Within OpenHPC Collaborative Project the open stack of the Linux-applications of OpenHPC by means of which it will be possible to build quickly environments for the organization of high-performance computing is developed.

Dell, Fujitsu, HP and Intel create the project of supercalculations based on Linux

The OpenHPC components are tools for control automation by a configuration and installations of updates, utilities for resource management, libraries of input-output, a monitoring system, tools for developers, means for the organization of parallel computings and a set of different libraries for scientific works.

Participants of an initiative jointly were engaged in the solution of such questions as creation of the stable environment for testing and  continuous integration, cost reduction on  deployment and  operation of supercomputing projects, development of flexible means of configuring of an application stack.

According to the technical director of Atos IT company (also enters into OpenHPC Collaborative Project) Jerome Stoller, around OpenHPC the ecosystem in which the developers, system administrators and end users representing the different markets will interact will be created.^[1]

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