Customized HPC Cluster Software Stack on QCT Developer Cloud

Abstract

OpenHPC is a collaborative project conducted by Linux Foundation to lower barriers to deployment, management, and use of modern HPC system with reference collection of open-source HPC software components and best practices. Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) customized HPC cluster software stack including system provisioning, core HPC services, development tools, and optimized applications and libraries, which are distributed as pre-built and validated binaries and are meant to seamlessly layer on top of popular Linux distributions with the integration conventions defined by OpenHPC project. The architecture of QCT HPC Cluster Software Stack is intentionally modular to allow end users to pick and choose from the provided components, as well as to foster a community of open contribution. This paper presents an overview of the underlying customized vision, system architecture, software components and run tests on QCT Developer Cloud.