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A Fully Open, Community-Driven HPC Ecosystem: A Credible Future or Chimera?

DescriptionHPC has leveraged open-source software for many years, and indeed many of our activities rely upon these technologies. However, key parts of our ecosystem remain closed, which include vendor-specific tooling and the underlying hardware that HPC relies on. Recent advances, and culture shifts in the industry, mean that we are now at a stage where an entirely open and community-driven HPC ecosystem, built upon an open technology stack and open standards, is a more realistic proposition than ever before. Benefits of this include providing transparency and community involvement in key technologies, and indeed initiatives such as RISC-V mean that openness can permeate much deeper down the stack.

The time is now to push towards a fully open, community-driven HPC ecosystem, and this panel will explore the opportunities and challenges associated with such an ambition, and how we as a community can encourage progress towards this goal.

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