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* blog entry for HPCSF * Fix spelling, rm words * Fixes: formatting, rm "computing", one sentence per line * Update blog post with more info * Incorporate suggestions --------- Co-authored-by: Christian Trott <[email protected]>
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+authors: ["kokkos-team"]
+title: "Kokkos Joins High Performance Software Foundation"
+date: 2024-05-20
+tags: ["blog"]
+thumbnail: img/blog/2024/kokkos-hpsf.png
+---
+
+Kokkos is among the six initial technical projects of the newly created High Performance Software Foundation ([HPSF](https://hpsf.org)).
+HPSF is set up as an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation to foster collaboration around the development and support of its associated technical projects.
+Conceived through an initial collaboration between the Spack and the Kokkos team, this effort has brought together institutions that want to foster a more cooperative effort of developing and maintaining key open-source projects in the space of high performance computing and related compute intensive areas.
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+Historically the HPC community has been characterized by a large amount of fragmentation, with many similar or even identical capabilities developed at different institutions.
+Many projects were reluctant to rely on third party libraries due to the lack of reliable software support funding mechanism in the scientific community.
+Furthermore, the lack of community governance models hindered the establishment of joint multi-institutional development efforts.
+
+For Kokkos the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Exascale Computing Project changed that.
+By providing a framework that included all DOE's national laboratories it was possible to grow the Kokkos team beyond a single institution and establish a multi-laboratory effort to develop a robust performance portability solution.
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+HPSF intents to be the common ground for establishing these collaborations on a global scale. 
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+# HPSF Structure
+
+HPSF will be controlled by a Governing Board and a Technical Advisory Council.
+The Governing Board will consist of a mix of representatives from HPSF member organizations and some representation from technical projects such as Kokkos.
+It decides how to allocate the budget of the foundation, and also controls marketing and HPSF events.
+Furthermore, the Governing Board decides on general HPSF rules.
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+The Technical advisory committee organizes technical working groups and develops criteria for the project lifecycle in HPSF. It consists mainly of representatives of the technical projects.
+Technical governance of projects associated with HPSF is still up to each individual project.
+The Advisory Council is also the primary body to organize day-to-day collaboration with other Linux Foundation efforts.
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+{{< image src="img/blog/2024/hpsf-structure.png" style="float: center; height=10">}}
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+# Open for Global Business
+
+Key benefits of belonging to the High-Performance Software Foundation include open governance models, resources for improving software quality and building community, as well as collaborations with the larger Linux computing ecosystem.
+Leveraging well established open governance models from the Linux Foundation, HPSF provides a framework to organize multi-institutional collaborations.
+Donating rights to Kokkos to the Linux Foundation also demonstrates that the Kokkos team and DOE are serious with their intent to evolve Kokkos into a true community project.
+
+# Benefits for Kokkos Users & Developers
+
+Kokkos developers and users will likely experience, few, if any, change in their day-to-day activities.
+It will be developed using the existing mechanisms on github with funding by the existing stake-holders.
+On the legal side the trademark for Kokkos is now held by the Linux Foundation.
+Contributors will however retain their copyright.
+
+Over the longer term joining the Linux Foundation and HPSF will enable Kokkos to build a stronger community and realize the benefits of improved software, open governance, resources for community building, and world-wide collaboration.
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+More information on the HPSF launch can be found in this [press release](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-the-high-performance-software-foundation).
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