OpenHPC 1.0, a new open source initiative to advance high performance computing, has selected Warewulf as its provisioning component. Warewulf is a configuration and management toolkit created by Research IT’s partners at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Its capabilities include deploying software and configuration to clusters and clouds; and performing ongoing management and monitoring tasks, such as adding user accounts and checking for node failures.
Publicly launched in November 2015, OpenHPC is a collaborative project of the Linux Foundation to build and maintain a reference, open source software stack for managing High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clusters. This stack encompasses “provisioning tools, resource management, I/O clients, development tools, and a variety of scientific libraries.” The OpenHPC project has attracted broad participation from the HPC community, including both open source software developers and commercial vendors,
The creator and lead maintainer of Warewulf is Gregory Kurtzer, a High Performance Computing Systems Architect and developer in Research IT and LBNL’s Laboratory Research Computing Department. The toolkit also includes contributions from software developers affiliated with LBNL and other national labs, universities, and HPC-related vendors.