Announcing OpenHPC

OpenHPC is a new organization formed to promote the development, dissemination and application of open-source software in high-performance computing (HPC).  Our first thrust is to engage advanced, high-quality research projects with potential for impact in HPC, and help them to organize funding from vendors and others to turn their software into products with a real user community.

For more information, you can view this presentation.

Benefits to Our Partners:

• Research projects gain resources for hardening software, responding to bug reports, and tuning for particular architectures.
  
  
• HPC vendors gain from preferential porting and tuning of software for their systems, and first responses to reported problems.
  
  
• Both gain from OpenHPC’s organizational project support, with associated enhancements in communication, publicity, and technology transfer.

Initial Projects:

Open MPI: Open MPI combines the technologies and resources from several earlier efforts (Los Alamos National Laboratory: LA-MPI; Indiana University: LAM/MPI; University of Tennessee at Knoxville: FT-MPI; and High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart: PACX-MPI) to build the most versatile MPI library available.  This MPI 2.0-compliant library will exhibit industrial-grade performance, thread safety, heterogeneity, network and process fault tolerance, and wide availability on HPC systems.  Significant industrial interest has been expressed.  For more information, see www.Open-MPI.org.

Watch This Space! We are in discussions with several projects that meet the criteria above, and we anticipate additional announcements about new client projects soon.

How You Can Get Involved:

If you have projects to suggest, or for more information, contact us at info@OpenHPC.org.