Rémi Palancher
Founder & Open Source HPC Software Developer at Rackslab
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRémi Palancher is a founder and open-source HPC software developer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and improving large Linux-based HPC clusters. He built and led teams supporting multi-thousand-node production systems, contributed to Slurm integration and toolchains, and drove monitoring and management R&D for exascale-aware platforms. Since 2021 he has focused on Rackslab, creating open-source tools to simplify HPC usage, management and operations while bringing commercial delivery experience. Regular contributor to pyslurm, he has made practical enhancements—like a hostlist get_list() and detailed job loading flags—that ease automation and integration with Slurm. Based in Rennes, Rémi combines low-level systems engineering with product-minded leadership and a knack for turning operational pain points into reusable software. His background spans research labs, industrial HPC, and European R&D collaborations, giving him a rare blend of production rigor and exploratory design.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer science, systems & networks, Engineer, Computer science, systems & networks at Université de Technologie de Compiègne
English, French
Github Skills (6)
cluster-computing10
hpc10
slurm10
python10
clustering10
cython10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PySlurm/pyslurm
Mar 2015 - Mar 2022
Python Interface to Slurm
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Rémi primarily contributed to the `pyslurm` library, focusing on enhancing its core functionality. They added a `get_list()` method to the `hostlist` class, enabling easier iteration through hostnames. Additionally, the user incorporated the `SHOW_DETAIL` flag to the `slurm_load_jobs()` function, providing more detailed resource information. They also fixed topology hostlist formatting, updated documentation and made the library compatible with Slurm 21.08.
pythonslurmcythonhpccluster
rezib/rift
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
A tool to build and validate packages and make your own RPM based repository
Contributions:15 PRs, 275 pushes, 78 branches in 1 year 3 months
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