Over the last several years, OpenHPC has emerged as a community-driven stack providing a variety of common, pre-built ingredients to deploy and manage an HPC Linux cluster. Formed initially in November 2015 and formalized as a Linux Foundation project in June 2016, OpenHPC has been adding new software components and now supports multiple OSes/architectures. At this BoF, speakers from the OpenHPC Technical Steering Committee will provide technical highlights from the latest 2.x release first introduced in Q4 2020. We will then highlight potential community plans and solicit feedback regarding the recent distro announcement to discontinue CentOS8 at the end of 2021. Finally, we will invite open discussion giving attendees an opportunity to provide feedback on current conventions, packaging, request additional components and configurations, and discuss general future trends.
