[xcat-user] xCAT Consortium Update

[Markus H. <mar...@me...>]

Dear xCAT community,

it is one month ago, since we met at Supercomputing ’23 to announce that a consortium led by RedLine, OCF and MEGWARE is willing to take over the ownership of the current xCAT project to provide continuity for existing xCAT 2 based clusters. And we are still thrilled having seen so many of you during this event who have shown their interest and support, both in presence and online.

On the technical side, we have started to dive into the IBM-internal integration setup for compiling and testing xCAT releases. Our goal is to replicate and extend this infrastructure at RedLine, OCF and MEGWARE to provide even wider test coverage on more hardware infrastructures for future releases. At the same time, we continue to investigate the various legal aspects of the transition.

During our SC’23 meeting, we have also announced that in addition to our efforts surrounding xCAT 2, we would work with LENOVO towards making Confluent a suitable, community backed, xCAT 2 replacement for future cluster systems. For this reason, we invited LENOVO to become a full member of our consortium from the beginning. Understandably, this plan is a significant step for the Confluent team that requires thorough preparation and careful consideration and we will share further updates as this effort takes shape.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the team at IBM, namely Nathan A Besaw, for their continued support during the transition.


​Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards


Markus Hilger



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