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June 2025: OpenCHAMI Monthly Newsletter

OpenCHAMI Monthly Newsletter — June 2025 Edition

🌞 Summer Kickoff: Exciting Times Ahead!

As we roll into summer, OpenCHAMI is hitting new milestones, expanding the community, and making strides toward its 1.0 release. From new partners to upcoming in-person gatherings, June has been a month of momentum. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening and what’s coming next.

🚀 Important Announcements

🎉 Welcome, Dell—Our New Consortium Member

We’re proud to announce that Dell Technologies has joined OpenCHAMI as a full voting member of the consortium. Dell now holds seats on both the Governing Board and the Technical Steering Committee (TSC).

“Dell’s open‑source mindset and deep systems expertise will strengthen OpenCHAMI’s mission of building transparent, modular tooling for HPC operators.” — Eric Roman, Computational Systems Group, NERSC

Read the full announcement →

📬 Have questions or feedback about this announcement? Please input your thoughts here.

🌍 OpenCHAMI @ ISC High Performance 2025

The OpenCHAMI team had an outstanding presence at ISC, highlighted by the significant announcement of Dell Technologies joining the consortium. This partnership has energized the OpenCHAMI community, bringing substantial attention and credibility to our work.

The event sparked active interest from global HPC centers such as Cambridge, KTH, RIKEN, and EPCC. The well-received tutorial session at ISC has also prompted requests for further training events across Europe and Asia, demonstrating strong enthusiasm and commitment within the community.

We anticipate an exciting, diverse, and highly collaborative Developer Summit in September with confirmed participation from industry leaders and research institutions worldwide.

📺 Highlights and session recordings will be added soon. Here is the gist of key developments from ISC.

📅 Register for TACC Developer Summit 2025

OpenCHAMI Developer Summit @ TACC 2025 is happening in Austin, TX from September 9–11, 2025.

Whether you’re new to OpenCHAMI or an experienced contributor, you’ll find tutorials, hackathons, and governance discussions tailored for you.

👉 Register early — space is limited!

🔧 Project Updates

💡 Key Technical Work

  • PCS service – PDU port discovery and integration is underway. See Magellan #100
  • SMD API enhancements – Magellan now updates SMD about discovered items.
  • Image builder improvements – Enhanced support for custom image configuration and metadata. «PlaceHolder for Review»

📚 Key RFDs for Review

We use asynchronous discussions within GitHub issues to surface ideas and work through them across the community. This process is inspired by best practices at Sun Microsystems and Oxide Computer Company.

Highlighted RFDs for community review:

👉 View and comment on RFDs on GitHub

💬 Community Updates

🔔 Community Meeting — June 24, 2025

Join us for the OpenCHAMI Community Meeting on June 24. Nick Jones will present updates on OpenCHAMI Systems, including:

  • Scaling benchmarks: 4 nodes → 600 nodes → 1000+
  • Production image types: RHEL, TOSS, COS
  • DST timing: ~15 minutes
  • 65+ image releases since February
  • Focus on system state as a collection of artifacts
  • Discussions on uptime, reliability, and future-proofing the stack

“We’re actively engineering for scale and aiming for realistic, resilient deployments.”

Please help spread the word and attend this important meeting!

🙋 Getting Involved

There are many ways to contribute and stay connected:

🔹 Quotes & Highlights

“Dell’s participation validates OpenCHAMI’s design principles and accelerates our progress.” — Placeholder, OpenCHAMI Maintainer

“OpenCHAMI tutorials at ISC drew full rooms. The interest is real.” — Placeholder, ISC Attendee

🎓 Miscellaneous

  • Contributor Spotlight: Coming soon
  • Quick Tip: Use the new magellan secrets list to manage encrypted credentials across PDU endpoints
  • Docs Update: Starting guide for vTDS arriving next week

Thanks for reading! Until next time, stay secure and keep automating — The OpenCHAMI Team

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