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Technical documentation
for ports and HPC software.

Port documentation, operational guides, benchmarks, and interoperability notes for the FreeBSD HPC software stack.

Guide collection
FreeBSD HPC Guides
How to wire the HPC stack together on FreeBSD — UCX, OpenMPI, Slurm, PMIx, PRRTE. Configuration, interoperability, and troubleshooting.
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Benchmarking on FreeBSD
Running OSU micro-benchmarks, HPL, and custom workloads to verify the stack performs correctly after installation.
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net/ucx
Unified Communication X — transport layer for HPC. Build options, supported transports, FreeBSD-specific notes.
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mpi/openmpi
OpenMPI port — unbundled PRRTE and PMix dependencies, UCX transport wiring, build options.
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sysutils/slurm-wlm
Slurm workload manager port — configuration for FreeBSD, PMIx integration, cgroup notes.
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mpi/prrte
PMIx Reference RunTime Environment — standalone port, relationship to OpenMPI, configuration options.
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mpi/pmix
Process Management Interface for Exascale — standalone port, version compatibility matrix with Slurm and OpenMPI.
Coming soon
net-mgmt/net-snmp
net-snmp port — patch audit notes, upstream bug history, FreeBSD-specific build quirks.