[Fedora-nightlife-list] Some initial discussions of a Fedora HPC SIG

[Bryan Che]

Hi Shawn, I'd be interested.

Bryan

Shawn Starr wrote:
> (This was also sent to fedora-devel-list)
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> There is talk of creating a HPC SIG that will focus on making Fedora HPC/Grid/Cluster ready. It would be great to find out who in Fedora is interested in beginning some discussions. 
> 
> Here's some of my own questions to add to the mix:
> 
> - How can we make Anaconda support different interconnects?
> 
> - How do we handle HPC/Grid needs which differ from traditional systems? Using puppet, others?
>    * Should we provide 'sane' defaults needed within a HPC environment out of the box? 
>    * Addon packages to modify configurations of other packages?
> 
> - Which job submission/batch schedulers? more choice is better.
> 
> - Full OFED integration (Doug Ledford has been working on this)
> 
> - Provisioning: Multiple methods for provisioning? 
>   * Cobbler, Spacewalk, other open source mechanisms?
> 
> - Packaging of HPC applications/libs
>   * Open MPI, MPICH1/MPICH2?, MVAPICH1/MVAPICH2?
>   * Directory structure - FHS
>   * Using environment-modules or alternatives to allow users to switch between different MPIs etc.
> 
> - Package Optimization
>   * A lot of people tend to want highly optimized packages such as ATLAS and usually will recompile them against their
>      new processors. Do we just settle on defaults, can't satisfy all people.
> 
> There are many more questions and getting some initial discussions going will be beneficial to Fedora.
> 
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