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OpenSolaris Project: HPC Stack

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Introduction

Present-day HPC developers and administrators have no one-stop shop for HPC tools and systems on the OpenSolaris OS. They must download and install tools and systems from different sites. Installation procedures vary from product to product. Documentation discusses only individual products but not how to configure or integrate them together.

The OpenSolaris HPC Stack project's goal is to bring together a complete, integrated environment for developers and administrators, making the installation and configuration as automated and easy as possible. This stack will focus initially on Sun products, configured to work together, but will expand to include popular open source HPC tools and applications. Documentation and instructions will cover how these products work together. For developers, select examples and starter projects will be included to get the HPC developer productive in the shortest time possible.

OpenSolaris HPC Distro

Work has now begun on an OpenSolaris distro that is customized and tuned for high-performance computing. The community will be working to release two "products." The first will be an HPC developer kit, and the second will be a true OpenSolaris HPC distro.

The HPC developer starter kit will be targeted at making HPC development on the OpenSolaris platform as painless as possible. The basic idea will be to bundle together commonly used tools and applications, provide a common installer around them to minimize the difficulty in getting started, and to integrate the individual components together in a way that maximizes developer productivity.

The OpenSolaris HPC distro will be the same idea as the developer starter kit, except that it is focused on easing the deployment and management burden on administrators of HPC clusters. It will be a collection of tools and applications bundled with a build of OpenSolaris, tuned for a particular HPC vertical, and integrated to maximize uasability.

Source Code

To get the source code for the integration components in the HPC stack, check out the repository by running:

hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/hpc-stack/HPC-distro