December 2025 Status Report
Progress update for December: documentation merged and ongoing coordination with SchedMD to improve Slurm on FreeBSD.
Generic Rikka
Generic Rikka is a software developer and FreeBSD enthusiast with a focus on high-performance computing and system engineering.
She primarily programs in C and C++, but also works comfortably with C#, Python, Java, PHP + MySQL, and various shell scripting environments.
Rikka maintains several virtualized servers—both FreeBSD and Linux—and began contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection in summer 2025. Her first major work involved modernizing and eventually maintaining the sysutils/slurm-wlm port.
Today she is actively engaged in expanding FreeBSD’s HPC ecosystem, improving upstream collaboration, and promoting FreeBSD as a modern platform for scientific and research computing.
November 2025 Status Report
In November I focused on consolidating the existing HPC stack on FreeBSD and preparing additional core components for ports.
The Burden of combining the day-to-day life with high-end open-source
Image Source: Aggretsuko – Copyright belongs to Sanrio Co., Ltd. Changing the world by sitting at home in front of a screen First, I want to shed some light on my background.I’ve been programming for about ten years, exploring many…
Oktober 2025 Status Report
Slurm upgrade in progress, continuing upstreaming of portability patches to SchedMD, building a contributor circle and stating future plans.
Once Afraid of the Devil, Now Dancing With It: Notes on SchedMD and FreeBSD
Intro For the longest time, SchedMD treated the Devil with suspicion. FreeBSD, with its horned mascot and outsider reputation, wasn’t exactly invited onto the Slurm dance floor. At best, the Beastie might be allowed to linger at the edge of…
September 2025 Status Report
Infrastructural Work and slurm upstream work.
FreeBSD: Maintaining sysutils/slurm-wlm [Part 2: Cgroups and FreeBSD?!]
Image Source: The push in the right direction In my last post, i described, how i fixed a bug of the slurm-wlm port on FreeBSD, in which slurm tried to use the wrong socket address length (bug #288593). In…
August 2025 Status Report
Porting majority of HPC-related software stack to FreeBSD ports and fixing *BSD specific Slurm issues.
FreeBSD: Maintaining sysutils/slurm-wlm [Part 1: my socket is too large :c ]
Image Source: Why i choose slurm After years of patching on FreeBSD just for myself, i decided it was finally time for me to give something back to the community. And what better way to do so, than helping…