High Performance Software Foundation announced
The HPSF is to inspire HPC innovation and “make life easier for high performance software developers”.
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF). The stated aims of the HPSF are to revolutionise the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape by fostering global collaboration and driving open source solutions for an increasingly diversified set of architectures.
Its specific goals are to build, promote and advance a portable software stack for HPC, as well as address its growing ubiquity in scientific computing, digital engineering and AI.
It claims to have received investment from organisations such as the United States DoE’s Exascale Computing Project and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which the HPSF will use to exploit the potential of emerging technologies, including GPUs and other compute accelerators.
HPSF will serve as an umbrella project under the Linux Foundation, providing a neutral space for pivotal projects. The initial open source projects launched by HPSF include Spack (HPC package manager), Kokkos (performanceportable programming model), AMReX (framework for solving partial differential equations), WarpX an exascale computing project to manage plasma accelerators, Trilinos an object-orientated framework for large-scale multi-physics problems and Charliecloud a bring-your-own software stack for high performance computing centres . They will be managed by a technical advisory committee and follow a governance model inspired by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. HPSF representatives held a presentation at the ACM/ IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC23) on 13th November, showcasing the foundation’s vision and goals. Learn more at http://hpsf.io.