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Status Reports

Monthly reports on HPC infrastructure work on FreeBSD — upstream patches, ports contributions, and project status.

FreeBSD HPC Status Report — March 2025

Progress update for March: UCX portability fixes, two Slurm version updates with BSD-specific fix, and upstream UCX contribution merged.

Progress update for February: two new ports landed expanding the FreeBSD HPC ecosystem, and a UCX upstream fix submitted.

Progress update for January: documentation publicated, new py-reframe-hpc port merged, ongoing coordination with SchedMD to improve Slurm on FreeBSD.

Progress update for December: documentation merged and ongoing coordination with SchedMD to improve Slurm on FreeBSD.

In November I focused on consolidating the existing HPC stack on FreeBSD and preparing additional core components for ports.

Slurm upgrade in progress, continuing upstreaming of portability patches to SchedMD, building a contributor circle and stating future plans.

Infrastructural Work and slurm upstream work.

Porting majority of HPC-related software stack to FreeBSD ports and fixing *BSD specific Slurm issues.