The Linux Foundation has announced the establishment of the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) to consolidate the development of software for high performance computing (HPC) systems. Similar to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) focusing on software for large-scale cloud environments, HPSF aims to bring together cutting-edge technologies for HPC.
Among the initial suite of software joining HPSF are:
– Spack: the premier HPC package manager.
– Kokkos: a revolutionary programming model enabling the creation of modern C++ applications in a hardware-agnostic manner.
– Viskores (formerly VTK-m): a robust toolkit of visualization algorithms tailored for accelerator architectures.
– HPCToolkit: a set of tools for performance measurement and analysis across a range of computing systems.
– Apptainer: a high-performance, feature-rich container subsystem optimized for HPC, formerly known as Singularity.
– E4S: a meticulously curated distribution of scientific software packages fortified for enhanced performance.
Collaborating organizations involved in founding HPSF and contributing their software expertise include leading tech companies such as AWS, AMD, HPE, Intel, NVIDIA, prestigious research institutions like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Intel, Kitware, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and academic institutions like the University of Maryland, University of Oregon, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
TLDR: The Linux Foundation has created the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) to bring together top software technologies for high performance computing, with key industry, research, and academic players as collaborators.
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