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Interview with the developer of Singularity
Singularity
Sometimes you see the names of people working on the Linux kernel or other high-profile projects, but you don't hear much about them. Literally thousands of very hard working and extremely intelligent people work behind the scenes and contribute their knowledge for the greater good to develop open source software – most of the time for Linux.
This is particularly true in high-performance computing (HPC). In the TOP500 list of November 2015, Linux accounted for 98.8 percent of the systems. I would call this a pretty dominating position; yet, many of the developers writing HPC software on Linux are unknown.
Gregory M. Kurtzer has been working in HPC and Linux for many years. He has influenced the computing landscape and developed tools that you might be using today without even knowing it. In this interview, I talk to Greg about his background and some of his projects in general and about his latest initiative, Singularity, in particular. (Also see the article on Singularity in this issue.)
Jeff Layton: Hi Greg. Tell me bit about yourself and your background.
Gregory M. Kurtzer: My work with Linux began back in the mid-90s, after I obtained my degree in biochemistry and focused early on genomics and bioinformatics. Along this path, I became enamored with the idea of open source software and changed my focus from bio- to computational science. I job hopped a bit until I landed my current position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in October 2000.
Since then I have been very lucky to be part of some amazing science, with my computations being specifically in HPC. I have also taken part in, contributed to, and founded several well-known open source projects (among them, GRAB, Warewulf, Caos Linux, Centos Linux, Perceus, and, most recently, Singularity). Each of the projects that I have worked on was motivated by necessity, and being a strong advocate of the open
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