Save the date for HPSF Conference 2027! #HPSFCon will take place April 12-16, 2027 in Montreal, Canada

From K-ville to Full Professor. I came to Duke as an undergraduate, left for a few years, and was fortunate to return as faculty. Grateful to the mentors, trainees, colleagues, collaborators, and family who have supported me throughout this journey.

Tomorrow! Join Spack maintainers for a live tutorial, July 7 and 8 from 9-12pm PT. ✨ Sign up here: https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2026-hpc-tutorials

ISC High Performance 2026 made one thing clear. In the post Moore era, open source software is the bridge connecting HPC, AI, and heterogeneous hardware. Read Tech Times for a great recap. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to connect with HPSF. https://bit.ly/4vC2sPJ

ISC High Performance 2026 Opens: Post-Moore HPC Faces Open-Source Reckoning

ISC High Performance 2026 opens today in Hamburg for its 41st edition as Europe’s first exascale supercomputer JUPITER goes on display, the Linux Foundation’s open-source HPSF stack anchors the post-M...

techtimes.com

80+ people in the room for the Spack BOF at #ISC26! We presented highlights from Spack v1.2, and now Asher Antao is presenting how CSC #hpc and their users are using Spack on their new Roihu machine.

Spack tutorial alert 🚨 🧑‍🔬 ✨ Join LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center for a free, virtual tutorial of Spack on July 7 & 8. Sign up here: https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2026-hpc-tutorials

We’re excited to welcome Wi4MPI to the High Performance Software Foundation. Wi4MPI helps applications run across MPI implementations without recompilation, making HPC workflows more portable and flexible. A strong addition to the open HPC ecosystem. https://bit.ly/44oeBvL

Full house today as Greg Becker kicks off the #ISC26 Spack tutorial!

Spack v1.2.0 is out, loaded with features and performance improvements! Highlights: 🧵Parallel installer 🛠️Concretization groups 🧠Concretization caching 📝SBOMs 🔒spack isolate 🏖️ experimental sandboxing Get it now! github.com/spack/spack/... Demo: asciinema.org/a/755827

Release v1.2.0 (2026-06-21) · spack/spack

v1.2.0 is a major feature release. The main changes you'll notice are the new, parallel installer and the many performance improvements we've added. There are also usability features like concretiz...

github.com

Heading to #ISC26? 🚀 HPSF projects are leading tutorials, talks, and BoFs throughout the week, including sessions from E4S, Kokkos, OpenCHAMI, and Spack. Stop by, meet the communities, and see what's next for open source HPC software.

🚀 We're excited to welcome Flux Framework to HPSF. Deployed on the #1 Top500 system, El Capitan, Flux provides modern resource management and scheduling for HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/43F3Y7t

LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) is bringing back its summer tutorials, and there’s once again a 🎉Free Spack tutorial July 7-8!🎉 📝Register here for ours and other open source software tutorials! hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/20...

Think your project is too small for HPSF? Worried you'll lose control of your roadmap? Not sure you qualify because you're not running on a supercomputer? We're busting 6 myths about joining HPSF. Your project + roadmap. A bigger community. 🚀 https://bit.ly/4uOp5A6

6 top HPC voices on the future of HPC software — Mike Heroux, Martin Schulz, Christian Trott, Michela Taufer, Brian Van Essen & Todd Gamblin at #HPSFCon2026. Watch: https://youtu.be/ViWVX-q5wH4

Hardware keeps getting more complex. High performance software needs to keep up. Join HPSF at PASC for a minisymposia on the future of sustainable, vendor neutral high performance software, featuring insights that are shaping the HPC ecosystem. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4x0LKuL

By joining the HPSF, HPC initiatives can grow beyond small teams into open, community-driven environments that ensure long-term success. Hear from HPSF Board Member Julien Bigot on how CEA has seen this growth with projects like Environment Modules.

The most grounded quantum+HPC talk you'll find: Martin Schulz's #HPSFCon2026 intro to the Munich Quantum Software Stack — open source, native HPC integration, and a call for community input. Recap: https://bit.ly/4u37bsG

Day 1 of the joint EasyBuild / EESSI / Spack tutorial at CINECA, co-organized with the MaX EuroHPC Centre-of-Exellence, starts with an introduction to all 3 projects, followed by an introduction to the EuroHPC Federation Platform. @easybuild.bsky.social @eessi.bsky.social @spackpm.bsky.social

We're heading back to Hamburg! Join HPSF at ISC June 22-26. More Details: https://hpsf.io/event/isc-high-performance-2026/

How does a leader in European research scale open source software? 🇫🇷💻 By joining HPSF, CEA is ensuring the long-term sustainability of critical HPC tools like Kokkos. Neutral governance = broader adoption. Check out the full story here: https://bit.ly/4nzwPDl

Tue-Thu 19-21 June'26, an EasyBuild+EESSI+Spack tutorial/hackathon is being organized at CINECA (@cineca.bsky.social) in Bologna, Italy. In-person attendance is fully booked, but remote attendance (via Zoom) is still possible. More details, including registration via event.ugent.be/registration...

Every long-running HPC project faces technical debt. Jade Abraham's #HPSFCon2026 talk on 20+ years of Chapel maintenance is one of the most practically useful talks in the whole playlist. Recap: https://bit.ly/4vG6pUh

Self-publishing Logic for Programmers logicforprogrammers.com has overall a positive experience. *Printing* a self published book is a huge pain. Did you know that there are TWO kinds of OpenType fonts? .ttf fonts use *quadratic* Bézier curves, .otf fonts use *cubic* Bézier curves. Astounding!

Logic for Programmers

The mathematics that will help you in your everyday programming.

logicforprogrammers.com

New Newsletter! This one is about distinguishing Illegal States in software systems from Unwanted States. The former we want to make impossible, the latter we need to represent (so we can get out of them) buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

Illegal vs Unwanted States

Keep Unwanted States Representable

buttondown.com

HPC is moving from static batch scheduling to agentic orchestration. Vanessa Sochat's #HPSFCon2026 talk on Converged Computing and the Flux Framework shows how — and it's already happening. Recap here: https://bit.ly/4cAK9Ch

See you London for the OpenCHAMI Developer Summit 2026 May 6th – 8th 2026 Optional Day 0 @ Cambridge Days 1–2 @ University College London Details: openchami.org/events/2026/...

HPSFCon 2026 event recap is now live 🎬 This year’s program highlighted the importance of open, community-driven approaches to high performance computing and software infrastructure. Videos from the sessions will be available on YouTube soon (stay tuned!) Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4bHWp3E

Now live: All HPSFCon Session Recordings 🎥 Check out the ones you missed, or re-watch your favorites. https://youtube.com/@hpsf-community?si=82Y49LO-dNSDKnyj