FreeBSD HPC Status Report — August 2025

Ports Work

• Started porting the majority of the HPC-related software stack into the FreeBSD Ports tree, now hosted and tracked on our GitLab instance.
• Significant progress on Slurm fixes, enabling FreeBSD builds to complete and execute with fewer BSD-specific issues.

Bug Fixes & Patches

• Multiple local fixes applied to Slurm, targeting socket handling and portability issues.
• Documented all patches for eventual upstream submission.

Next Steps

• Finalize remaining patches for upstream review.
• Begin setting up automated infrastructure for testing and reproducibility.
• Continue porting HPC-related software into the Ports tree.