Red Hat’s policy change for Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code access started the biggest open source controversy in years. @HPCpodcast continues its coverage with Red Hat’s Mike McGrath, whose two blogs in late June announced the company’s new RHEL stance ….
Red Hat Riposte: CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
August 15, 2023 by
The ongoing Linux open source controversy took a turn today with the announcement by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), described by the companies as a collaborative trade association intended “to encourage development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux […]
HPCNow! Announces HPC Cluster Monitoring Offering
February 9, 2023 by
Barcelona, February 8th 2023 – HPCNow! has announced a real-time HPC cluster monitoring capability. The monitoring stack includes open-source solutions such as Grafana, Elasticsearch and Prometheus, for visualization and data storage, and Slurm plugins plus customized scripts to gather all the information needed by the system administrator. It is delivered using Docker Compose for single-node […]
NSF Announces Solicitation for Open-source Ecosystems
February 2, 2023 by
Feb. 2, 2023 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) published a solicitation for the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems, or POSE, program that aims to harness the power of open-source development as a platform of innovation to address challenges of societal and economic importance. The POSE program solicitation seeks two types of proposals: teams propose specific activities […]
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Approves Bylaws and Charter for Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Projects
November 10, 2022 by
RENO, Nev.—November 10, 2022—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization’s governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its namesake project, Rocky Linux. The charter and bylaws also describe the RESF vision to create and nurture a community of individuals and organizations that are committed […]
Registration Open for Open Compute Project Summit, Oct. 18-20
June 15, 2022 by
Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, October 18-20 in San Jose, is now open. Registration information can be found here. The summit is a gathering of technologists looking to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and software, and increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the […]
MemVerge and Open Source Community Partnering to Protect Distributed HPC Apps with DMTCP
November 15, 2021 by
ST. LOUIS – NOVEMBER 15, 2021 – At SC21 today, MemVerge and the DMTCP Project announced a partnership designed to accelerate development and adoption of long-awaited Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing (DMTCP) technology. Checkpointing is commonly used by enterprise apps to minimize downtime but checkpointing is almost impossible for complex distributed HPC apps with massive data sets. […]
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Flavio Villanustre Talks Open Source Analytics at LexisNexis
January 20, 2021 by
Open source champion Flavio Villanustre is vice president of technology and chief information security officer for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which is a global developer provider of big data and analytics solutions to help manage risk and improve outcomes. As an active participant in the Dell Technologies HPC Community, he contributes an avid open source perspective. His goal: offering and looking for new HPC and advanced analytics insights, techniques and strategies with Dell managers and customers at the organization’s meetings that will help push forward with Flavio’s open source mission begun 10 years ago.
SUSE Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
September 18, 2020 by
LONDON –SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company, today announced financial results* and highlights from the third quarter of its fiscal year 2020 ended July 31. SUSE’s Q3 revenue increased 14% year over year amid the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy this quarter. Cloud ACV (Annual Contract Value) bookings continued […]
HPE Scalable Storage for Lustre: The Middle Way
February 1, 2019 by
Lustre is a widely-used parallel file system in the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. It offers the performance required for HPC workloads, with its parallel design, flexibility, and scalability. This sponsored post explores HPE scalable storage and the Lustre parallel file system, and outlines ‘a middle ground’ available via solutions that offer the combination of Community Lustre within a qualified hardware solution.
