Cluster Computing with OpenHPC

Abstract

OpenHPC is a newly formed, community-based project that is providing an integrated collection of HPC-centric software components that can be used to implement a full-featured reference HPC compute resource. 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. Common clustering tools and scientific libraries are distributed as pre-built and validated binaries and are meant to seamlessly layer on top of existing Linux distributions. 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. This paper presents an overview of the underlying community vision, governance structure, packaging conventions, build and release infrastructure and validation methodologies.