OpenHPC is a set of community-driven
FOSS
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tools for
Linux
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based
HPC. OpenHPC does not have specific hardware requirements.
History
A birds-of-a-feather panel discussion titled "Community Supported HPC Repository & Management Framework" convened at the 2015 edition of the International Supercomputing Conference. The panel discussed the common software components necessary to build linux compute clusters and solicited feedback on community interest in such a project. Following the response, the OpenHPC project was announced at SC 2015 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.
Releases
Design
OpenHPC provides an integrated and tested collection of software components that, along with a supported standard Linux distribution, can be used to implement a full-featured compute cluster. Components span the entire HPC software ecosystem including provisioning and system administration tools, resource management, I/O services, development tools, numerical libraries, and performance analysis tools. The architecture of OpenHPC is intentionally modular to allow end users to pick and choose from the provided components, as well as to foster a community of open contribution. The project provides recipes for building clusters using
CentOS
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(v8.3) and
openSUSE
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Leap (v15.2) on
x86_64
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as well as
aarch64
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architectures.
See also
*
Cluster manager Within cluster and parallel computing, a cluster manager is usually backend graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI) software that runs on a set of cluster nodes that it manages (in some cases it runs on a different server or ...
*
Comparison of cluster software
*
List of cluster management software
List of software for cluster management.
Free and open source
* High-availability cluster
** Apache Mesos, from the Apache Software Foundation
** Kubernetes, founded by Google Inc, from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
** Heartbeat, from Lin ...
References
External links
OpenHPC: A Comprehensive System Software StackNext Platform – OpenHPC Pedal Put To The Compute MetalHPCwire – OpenHPC Pushes to Prove its Openness and Value at SC16High Performance Computing: 32nd International ConferenceOpenHPC Slack channel
Cluster computing
High-availability cluster computing
Job scheduling
Parallel computing
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