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Gregory M. Kurtzer
Background
-Over my 20+ year career I have built a reputation as an industry leader, -creating new trends and being results focused while representing the best -interests of both the organization and those of my teams. In addition to my -professional career I also have created, founded and built several large -open source projects and communities in the open source realm with install -counts in the millions of users. These projects include CentOS Linux, Caos -Linux, Perceus, Warewulf and most recently Singularity. My core values -include honesty, ethics, and integrity; Standards in which I hold both -myself and my colleagues to. +My career started in the mid-1990's with a degree in biochemistry and a +strong passion for open source software and Linux. Coupling these +displinces landed me squarely in High Performance Computing (HPC) where I've +spent well over two decades working with scientists and researchers to solve +some of the hardest and biggest computational problems ever.
-Specialties: Linux (environment, services and deep system internals), open -source, HPC, clustering, MPI, provisioning, scalability, system -administration, architecture, automation, development (Perl, C, SQL, PHP, -HTML, etc.), recruiting, team leadership, project leadership, management and -public speaking. +While in this role I also created several widely utilized open source +projects that even furthered my ability to help support scientific +innovation.
- -Professional
-I am the CEO of Ctrl IQ, Inc. and I'm hiring! Let me know if you are -interested and have a background in operating systems, containers, HPC, -and/or Kubernetes. +In 2017 I left the DOE to further enable both researchers as well as +enterprise organizations and I have now founded and led two companies +as CEO, Sylabs and now CIQ. +
+Open Source Projects
+ +OpenELA
-I have taken part of a variety of open source projects over the years, and -below are the ones I have had the honor of creating and leading and being -part of. +OpenELA is a non-profit trade association including CIQ, Oracle, and SuSE. The +goal is to ensure the longevity and continunity of Enterpise Linux such that +downstream derivitives can always provide a stable community based solution. +
+Rocky Linux
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another Linux distribution targetted at solving the same problem that Centos was designed to solve. - -Singularity
-Containers have taken the tech world by storm, and while they may be a -fantastic alternative to virtual machines (when the hardware abstraction is -not necessary), they are not a great fit for application portability. Until -now.... +http://rockylinux.org/
+ + +Singularity / Apptainer
-Singularity combines software packaging models (such as RPM) with -minimalistic containers to create very lightweight application bundles which -can be simply executed and contained completely within their environment or -be used to interact directly with the host file systems at native speeds. +In 2015-2016, containers were all the rage and thety took the industry by storm. +Unfortunately, containers were not well supported in HPC environments for a variety +of reasons. I set out to solve this problem and created Singularity. Within 6-9 +months from the initial release, Singularity was being used across the entire +computing industry because it solved such a massive pain point.
-A Singularity application bundle can be as simple as containing a single -binary application or as complicated as containing an entire workflow and -is as flexible as you will need. +In 2021 I moved Singularity into the Linux Foundation and per their request, the +project was renamed to Apptainer.
-http://singularity.hpcng.org/ +http://apptainer.org/
-Warewulf
--Warewulf is a scalable systems management suite originally developed to manage -large high-performance Linux clusters. Focused on general scalable systems -management, it includes a framework for system configuration, management, -provisioning/installation, monitoring, event notification, and more via a -modular plugin architecture. Install the components and features you need or -leverage the existing system configurations stored within Warewulf to create -custom solutions to meet your particular needs. -
-Perceus
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Centos
After founding the project I led it until 2005 and I was responsible for all of it's initial leadership, management, public outreach and partnerships during that period. Due to legal, political, and severely less then excellent -people, I was forced to relinquish leadership of the project to a party in +people, I was forced to relinquish leadership of the project to someone in the UK (where it stayed until the core developers were able to regain control of the project). There might be some very entertaining stories to be shared over dinner and drinks among friends...-Now the project is one of the most utilized Linux distributions for servers -and is run by Red Hat. +Before Red Hat killed off the project, CentOS was one of the most utilized +enterprise focused operating systems used across the ecosystem.
+ +Warewulf
++Warewulf is a scalable systems management suite originally developed to manage +large high-performance Linux clusters. Focused on general scalable systems +management, it includes a framework for system configuration, management, +provisioning/installation, monitoring, event notification, and more via a +modular plugin architecture. Install the components and features you need or +leverage the existing system configurations stored within Warewulf to create +custom solutions to meet your particular needs. +
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