Hi Michael and Andreas,
Thank you for the heads-up. Excellent presentation. I'm sure I will refer back to your list of HPC centres running Debian in the future.
I agree that the lack of a go-to company for support causes some difficulty for Debian in the HPC space. It makes things tricky as compared to dealing with Canonical, Red Hat, etc. Perhaps a system integrator like HPE could over take that role, but I assume they would have done so already if they wanted to.
On a related note, I find the Ubuntu Certified Hardware program quite interesting [1]. A formal certification program for Debian could help both with the user concerns about compatibility and with acquiring hardware for quality assurance. The feasibility of such a program is an open question.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]:
https://ubuntu.com/certified