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At SC’16, RedHat announced that it has joined the OpenHPC project as a Silver Member.

“Red Hat believes that hand-building unique software stacks is no longer a viable option within HPC, and that an open and modular HPC stack can help lead to consistent and reproducible results across heterogeneous computing environments,” representatives from RedHat said in a press release. “By joining the OpenHPC project, we are taking a step to standardize and simplify the use of various tools and libraries ...

The OpenHPC Technical Steering Committee is pleased to announce the release of OpenHPC, v1.2.

At SC16 in Salt Lake City, project lead Karl Schulz announced the latest release of the OpenHPC project.

This minor release includes several new components, a significant number of component version updates, and a Tech Preview of ARM aarch64 builds. The number of available installation recipe guides has also expanded to support an additional resource manager option (PBS Professional) and the aarch64 architecture.

• Release Notes: https://github.com/openhpc/ohpc/releases/tag/v1.2.GA
• Install Guides/Release RPMs: ...

OpenHPC 1.1.1 was released today on June 21, 2016

This is an update release against OHPC 1.1 that provides a small number of fixes and minor component changes. Users who previously enabled the OHPC 1.1 repository via the ohpc-release package should have immediate access to the updates available in 1.1.1 and no additional repository enablement should be necessary. Note that a number of users reported an issue when running Warewulf commands after installation related to having the BASH_ENV variable set (e.g. ...

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenHPC 1.0.1 to provide a small number of fixes and minor component changes.  Note that with the introduction of this first update release, a slight change is advised with respect to enabling OpenHPC repositories for use locally. In particular, the 1.0 tree is now separated into a [base] repository which contains the contents of the original 1.0 release, and an [updates] repository to facilitate micro updates like this latest 1.0.1 version.  To (hopefully) make ...

We are pleased to announce the initial formation of OpenHPC, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. A press release highlighting the project, supporting members, starting motivation and plans is available here.