Tracking of Future RHEL Variants

This page is used to track developments relevant for future OpenHPC releases after CentOS8 end of life at the end of 2021. Please see an initial response from the OpenHPC Technical Steering committee on the CentOS announcement here.

RHEL compatible alternatives:

• Rocky Linux
• Project Lenix / AlmaLinux
• Oracle Linux
• CentOS Stream

Other considerations:

• File systems support
  • Lustre
  • BeeGFS
• Interconnects support:
  • OFED/MOFED

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Please let us know on the OpenHPC slack #general channel if you are aware of other initiatives we should be considering.