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Linux announces portable core software stack, HPSF, for high performance computing

Linux Foundation Monday May 13, 2024 announced the launch of High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) which 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.

Tuesday May 14, 2024 8:17 PM, ummid.com News Network

Hamburg (Germany): Linux Foundation Monday May 13, 2024 announced the launch of High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) which 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.

While launching the new platform, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source said 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.

"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", Linux said.

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)", Linux said.

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.
• HPC Toolkit: 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 Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data.

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