How is the xCAT Consortium effort going?
I had the impression we’d hear approximately monthly updates about its 
progress, but I haven’t seen any updates since this message in December.

- Bill Glick


From: Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com>
Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 11:07 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT Consortium Update
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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