What OpenHPC does

OpenHPC is a community-driven open-source project operating as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project since its founding in November 2015. It aggregates and validates the common software components required to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clusters, delivering them as pre-built, community-tested binary RPM packages. The stack spans provisioning tools (Warewulf, OpenCHAMI, Confluent), resource management (Slurm), I/O clients, development tools, compilers (GCC, Intel, LLVM, ARM), MPI implementations (OpenMPI, MVAPICH2, MPICH, Intel MPI), numerical libraries, and performance tools. Packages are built via the Open Build Service and distributed across multiple Linux distributions (RHEL, openSUSE Leap, openEuler) and processor architectures (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le), organized into parallel release tracks (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x) targeting different OS generations.

The project is structured as a modular building-block system: adopters select individual components rather than the full stack, supported by step-by-step installation recipes and automation scripts. A stateless cluster design enables fast deployment for both production HPC systems and training labs. OpenHPC is governed by a Technical Steering Committee with representation from maintainers, end-user/site organizations, and upstream component developers; Karl W. Schulz has served as Technical Project Lead since inception. The project has grown to encompass hundreds of packages, with major member organizations including Intel, AMD, Red Hat, SUSE, HPE, Huawei, Lenovo, SpaceX, and AWS, alongside academic and national-laboratory participants.

OpenHPC is free and open-source under community-friendly licenses, with no licensing fees for the software itself. It is funded through Linux Foundation membership contributions from commercial, academic, and government organizations. The go-to-market model is community-led: users self-serve via mailing lists, GitHub, the Open Build Service, and conferences (ISC, SC, PEARC, Open Source Summit). Documented users include the University of Washington Research Computing Group (HYAK, a 15,000-core cluster) and the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC. Primary customer segments are universities and research institutions, national laboratories and government research facilities, and enterprise organizations deploying HPC clusters for computational workloads.

Name

OpenHPC

Legal name

OpenHPC

Website

https://openhpc.community

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Short description

OpenHPC is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, founded in 2015, that provides community-tested, pre-built binary RPM packages for deploying HPC Linux clusters. It serves universities, national laboratories, and enterprises worldwide with a vendor-neutral, open-source software stack.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HPC Infrastructure Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

HPC System Software & Resource Management (Schedulers, MPI, OS Images) (HDACAOAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Developer & Open-Source Communities (MPACAJAK)

Keywords

• HPC software stack
• Linux cluster management
• HPC provisioning tools
• Scientific computing libraries
• Open-source HPC

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Open Source Distribution: OpenHPC is freely available as open source under community-friendly licenses. All components are freely downloadable as binary RPM packages from the project's repositories. The project is funded through member organizations and the Linux Foundation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

OpenHPC is a collaborative open-source project that aggregates and validates common HPC ingredients into a unified, community-tested software stack delivered as pre-built binary RPM packages. The stack includes provisioning tools (Warewulf, OpenCHAMI, Confluent), resource managers (Slurm, PBS Professional), compilers, MPI implementations, numerical libraries, performance tools, and cluster management software, enabling administrators to deploy complete HPC Linux clusters without building components from source.

Product overview

OpenHPC is a unified HPC software stack delivered as a collection of pre-built binary RPM packages. The project aggregates and validates common HPC ingredients including provisioning tools (Warewulf, OpenCHAMI, Confluent), resource management (Slurm), compilers (GNU, Intel, LLVM, ARM), MPI implementations (OpenMPI, MVAPICH, MPICH), numerical libraries, performance tools, and development tools. The stack supports multiple Linux distributions (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/AlmaLinux, openSUSE Leap, openEuler) across multiple processor architectures (x86_64, aarch64). Packages are organized into versioned release tracks (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x) targeting different OS versions, and are distributed via the Open Build Service with installation recipes and documentation for cluster deployment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OpenHPC Software Stack A community-validated, pre-built HPC software stack delivered as binary RPM packages. Includes provisioning tools (Warewulf, OpenCHAMI, Confluent), resource managers (Slurm), compilers (GNU, Intel, LLVM, ARM), MPI implementations (OpenMPI, MVAPICH2, MPICH, Intel MPI), numerical libraries, performance tools, and cluster management software. Designed for HPC administrators at universities, national laboratories, and enterprise organizations deploying Linux clusters.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced sysadmin efforts and eliminated downtimes at IFT research institution
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 February 2024HPSF was welcomed as a partner at the Linux Foundation. HPSF's mission is complementary to OpenHPC - while OpenHPC focuses on creating clusters by curating and integrating open-source HPC and AI software and orchestrating them to simplify deployment and operation, HPSF delivers high-level software on top of this foundation. This partnership strengthens the HPC community through collaboration.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Altair Engineering: Altair develops PBS Professional, an alternative HPC workload manager that OpenHPC supports alongside Slurm. Altair is a direct peer in the HPC resource management space and competes for HPC system deployments where PBS is chosen over Slurm.
• SchedMD: SchedMD is the primary commercial developer of Slurm, the workload manager that OpenHPC bundles as its default resource manager. Direct peer because SchedMD's commercialization of the core scheduler overlaps with OpenHPC's integrated stack and targets overlapping HPC customers.
• Bright Computing: Bright Computing provides commercial HPC cluster management software (Bright Cluster Manager) that integrates with OpenHPC libraries and packages. They are a direct peer because they target the same HPC cluster deployment and management use case, with Bright being the commercial counterpart and a partner of OpenHPC.

Broad incumbents

• HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise): HPE offers HPC hardware, software (HPE Cray), and turnkey HPC cluster solutions that often bundle proprietary software stacks. HPE is a broad incumbent and an OpenHPC member that ships its own HPC solutions alongside the open ecosystem.
• Red Hat: Red Hat provides enterprise Linux (RHEL) and OpenShift Container Platform, which underpins HPC deployments that OpenHPC also targets. Red Hat is a broad incumbent offering HPC-optimized RHEL variants and is also a member of the OpenHPC community, making it both a competitor and collaborator.
• Lenovo: Lenovo provides HPC hardware (ThinkSystem servers) and solutions targeted at academic and enterprise HPC. Lenovo is a broad incumbent and an OpenHPC member that integrates hardware with HPC software stacks (including OpenHPC).
• SUSE: SUSE provides enterprise Linux distributions (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and HPC-tuned variants, and is a key OpenHPC member. SUSE is a broad incumbent that competes with OpenHPC by offering commercial enterprise Linux support for HPC workloads, while also contributing to OpenHPC's openSUSE-based stacks.
• Microsoft Azure CycleCloud: Microsoft Azure CycleCloud provides enterprise HPC workload orchestration in the cloud, including support for Slurm-based clusters. Azure is a broad incumbent that competes with OpenHPC deployments in the cloud HPC orchestration space.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services): AWS offers HPC services including AWS ParallelCluster and EC2 HPC instances, providing cloud-based HPC deployment. AWS is a broad incumbent and an OpenHPC member that competes with on-premises OpenHPC deployments via cloud HPC offerings.
• Penguin Computing (SMART Modular): Penguin Computing provides end-to-end HPC solutions including hardware, software stacks, and managed services. It is a broad incumbent in the HPC turnkey deployment space that competes with OpenHPC's value proposition of simplified cluster deployment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/openhpc/ohpc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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