[Beowulf] OpenHPC ?

[Prentice Bisbal]

This article makes it sound like we're caught in a proxy war between IBM 
and Intel.

Prentice

On 11/17/2015 04:44 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Here is an interesting perspective on the OpenHPC thing
>
> http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/16/a-new-era-of-open-competition-for-hpc-begins/
>
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> Doug (from SC15)
>
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Something called OpenHPC uncloaked at SC, according to folks on the
>> Easybuild list.
>>
>> http://www.openhpc.community/
>>
>> The initial release is based on CentOS 7.1 according to the announcement:
>>
>> https://groups.io/g/OpenHPC-announce/thread/ohpc_1_0_released/192847?p=,,,0,0,0,0:RecentPostDate,,,20,2,0,192847
>>
>> Participants list is interesting, both for who is on it (a lot of Intel
>> vendors, various ISVs and big labs), and also for who is not (yet)
>> listed there - Mellanox, IBM, AMD & ARM I notice at first blush.
>>
>> http://www.openhpc.community/about-us/participants/
>>
>> Interestingly only a few days ago (November 10th) Mellanox (who are not
>> listed as a member) trademarked "Mellanox OpenHPC".
>>
>> Amusingly whilst the base is CentOS the members list does not list
>> Red Hat as a member, but does list SuSE. :-)
>>
>> All the best,
>> Chris
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> Doug
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