Linux Foundation forms the High-Performance Software Foundation
Linux Foundation to form the High-Performance Software Foundation
The new group will focus on building and advancing a portable core software stack for high-performance computing.
The Linux Foundation has created the new High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF). Through a series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and advance a portable software stack for high-performance computing (HPC) by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts.
Already, HPSF has received support across the HPC landscape, including major cloud providers, vendors and organizations, including: Amazon Web Services, Argonne National Laboratory, CEA, CIQ, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Kitware, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and the University of Oregon.
Drawing from supporting organizations and community members, HPSF will set up a technical advisory committee (TAC) to manage working groups tackling various HPC topics, and will follow a governance model based on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
HPSF representatives will attend ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC23) on Monday, November 13 for a kickoff presentation at 8:00 pm. The presentation will happen at the DOE booth on the show floor during the opening Gala, with words from HPSF founders and supporters. HPSF representatives will also be available to talk to prospective projects and members.
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HPSF supports multiple open-source technical projects
At launch, the HPSF will support ten initial projects:
Spack: the HPC package manager
Kokkos: a performance-portable programming model for writing modern C++ applications in a hardware-agnostic way.
AMReX: a performance-portable software framework designed to accelerate solving partial differential equations on block-structured, adaptively refined meshes.
WarpX: a performance-portable Particle-in-Cell code with advanced algorithms that won the 2022 Gordon Bell Prize
Trilinos: a collection of reusable scientific software libraries, known in particular for linear, non-linear, and transient solvers, as well as optimization and uncertainty quantification.
Apptainer: a container system and image format specifically designed for secure high-performance computing.
VTK-m: a toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for accelerator architectures.
HPCToolkit: performance measurement and analysis tools for computers ranging from laptops to the world's largest GPU-accelerated supercomputers.
E4S: the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
Charliecloud: HPC-tailored, lightweight, fully unprivileged container implementation.
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