[Project Proposal] E4S

[jwillenbring]

1. Name of Project

E4S

2. Project Description

The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) is a community effort to provide open source software packages for developing, deploying and running scientific applications on high-performance computing (HPC) and AI platforms. E4S provides from-source builds, containers, and pre-installed versions of a broad collection of HPC and AI software packages (E4S 24.11 release notes). E4S includes contributions from many organizations, including national laboratories, universities, and industry.

3. Statement on Alignment with High Performance Software Foundation's Mission

E4S exists to accelerate the development, deployment and use of HPC-AI software, lowering the barriers for HPC-AI users. E4S represents one of the largest collections of performance-portable GPU-enabled libraries and tools, supporting users of NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs in addition to Intel, AMD and Arm CPUs. E4S provides containers and turn-key, from-source builds of more than 130 popular HPC-AI products. E4S products include programming models, such as MPI and Kokkos; development tools such as HPCToolkit, TAU and PAPI; math libraries such as PETSc and Trilinos; Data and Viz tools such as HDF5 and Paraview; and AI products such as JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Horovod. The entire portfolio is tested and validated on a variety of platforms, from laptops to supercomputers, providing confidence for users to upgrade with each E4S release.

4. Project Website (please provide a link)

Project Website

5. Open Source License (please provide a link)

SPDX Identifier: MIT
LICENSE.txt

6. Code of Conduct (please provide a link)

Code of Conduct

7. Governance Practices (please provide a link)

Project Governance

8. Two Sponsors from the High Performance Software Foundation's Technical Advisory Committee

9. What is the project's solution for source control?

10. What is the project's solution for issue tracking?

11. Please list all external dependencies and their license

12. Please describe your release methodology and mechanics

13. Please describe Software Quality efforts (CI, security, auditing)

14. Please list the project's leadership team

E4S Technical Steering Committee:

• Tammy Dahlgren -- GitHub handle: tldahlgren
• Richard Gerber -- GitHub handle: ragerber
• Michael Heroux -- GitHub handle: maherou
• Luke Peyralans -- GitHub handle: eugeneswalker
• Sameer Shende -- GitHub handle: sameershende
• James Willenbring -- GitHub handle: jwillenbring

15. Please list the project members with access to commit to the mainline of the project

16. Please describe the project's decision-making process

17. What is the maturity level of your project?

18. Please list the project's official communication channels

19. Please list the project's social media accounts

20. Please describe any existing financial sponsorships

21. Please describe the project's infrastructure needs or requests