Open Source

@HPCpodcast-68: Mike McGrath of Red Hat on Linux Controversy

September 7, 2023

A change in distribution policy by Red Hat started the biggest open source controversy in years. We continue our coverage of this topic with Mike McGrath, whose two blogs from Red Hat in late June announced the company’s new policy. Mike is Vice President of Core Platforms at Red Hat where he leads the development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related platforms. He has been at Red Hat for nearly seventeen years and in the IT industry since 2004.

Our coverage started with special guest Joe Landman, and then with Greg Kurtzer of CIQ. Be sure to listen to all three episodes to get a full perspective on the various issues and nuances, and there are a few, including how the Open Source community has changed, how the software supply chain in Open Source has worked and why it is now a point of contention, and in what happened to Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

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@HPCpodcast-67: Greg Kurtzer of CIQ on Linux Controversy, OELA

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August 29, 2023

The Linux open source controversy was kicked off about two months ago when Red Hat announced it was changing access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. This has thrown the open source community into a major disruption. We discussed this in a previous episode with our special guest Joe Landman. We also spoke with Greg Kurtzer of CIQ and Mike McGrath of Red Hat to get their perspectives.

This episode is our conversation with Greg Kurtzer, founder and chief executive officer of CIQ. He’s a 20+ year veteran in Linux open source and HPC. His focus has been on designing scalable architectures for performance-intensive computing while working for the US Department of Energy and holding a joint appointment to UC Berkeley. Greg has led several large open source projects such as CENTOS Linux and its successor Rocky Linux. Related to this conversation is a new industry alliance led by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE called the Open Enterprise Linux Association. Stay tuned for an in-depth discussion with Mike McGrath of Red Hat.

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RISC-V Global Forum

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August 15, 2020

RISC-V Global Forum

See the video below for Shahin Khan’s keynote talk at the RISC-V Global Forum. RISC-V has rapidly emerged as the Linux of the chip industry. The Open Source approach is well known in software, but RISC-V is using it for hardware, lowering barriers and building a large community. This has made it a rapidly emerging global force in the semiconductors market. The RISC-V Global Forum is a tour de force of community engagement and shared insights. See the full agenda here.

Thu, Sept 3, 2020; 12:00am – 5:30pm pacific
Shahin’s talk is here
Past Event

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Cost of Data and How to Avoid Data Loss

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October 24, 2017

Brian Hellman from LINBIT joins as the guest of Dan Olds and Shahin Khan to discuss our recent blog and research paper, The Cost of Data Loss and How to Avoid It. The research goes beyond traditional “outage” of resources and lookins at the value of the data that you are not collecting when there is downtime. In this podcast, the team looks at consequences of data loss, cost categories of data, and available solutions to prevent data loss.

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