HPSF will build, promote, and advance an open and portable core
software stack for high performance computing.
HAMBURG,
Germany, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the
Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass
innovation through open source, is excited to announce the launch
of the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF). Through a
series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and
advance a portable core software stack for high performance
computing (HPC) by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to
contribution, and supporting development efforts.
HPSF will build, promote, and advance
an open and portable core software stack for high performance
computing.
As use of HPC becomes ubiquitous in scientific computing and
digital engineering, and AI use cases multiply, more and more data
centers deploy GPUs and other compute accelerators. HPSF will
provide a neutral space for pivotal projects in the high
performance computing ecosystem, enabling industry, academia, and
government entities to collaborate on the scientific software
stack.
HPSF benefits from strong support across the HPC landscape,
including Premier Members Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL); General Members
AMD, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Intel, Kitware, Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL), NVIDIA, and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL); and Associate Members University of Maryland, University of Oregon, and Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC). HPSF will set up a technical advisory
committee (TAC) to manage working groups tackling a variety of HPC
topics. Drawing from member organizations and community
participants, the TAC will follow a governance model based on the
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
The HPSF is launching with the following initial open source
technical projects:
- Spack: the HPC package manager.
- Kokkos: a performance-portable programming model for writing
modern C++ applications in a hardware-agnostic way.
- Viskores (formerly VTK-m): a toolkit of scientific
visualization algorithms for accelerator architectures.
- HPCToolkit: performance measurement and analysis tools for
computers ranging from desktop systems to GPU-accelerated
supercomputers.
- Apptainer: Formerly known as Singularity, Apptainer is a Linux
Foundation project providing a high performance, full featured HPC
and computing optimized container subsystem.
- E4S: a curated, hardened distribution of scientific software
packages.
HPSF aims to make life easier for high performance software
developers through a number of focused initiatives, including:
- Continuous integration resources tailored for HPC projects
- Continuously built, turnkey software stacks
- Architecture support
- Performance regression testing and benchmarking
- Collaborations with other LF projects, such as OpenSSF, UEC,
UXL Foundation, and CNCF
The HPSF welcomes organizations from across the HPC ecosystem to
get involved and help drive innovation in open source HPC
solutions. To learn more about the HPSF, including how to get
involved, contribute, and become a member, please visit hpsf.io.
HPSF members will also be hosting a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF)
session during the ISC-HPC conference on Monday, May 13th at 1:00
pm CEST. Interested participants are encouraged to attend,
see session details here.
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