[Fedora-nightlife-list] Some initial discussions of a Fedora HPC SIG
Bryan Che
bche at redhat.com
Fri Jul 18 13:51:31 UTC 2008
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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