Grid Community Toolkit GSI-OpenSSH with HPN support packages available

The Grid Community Toolkit has released new GSI-OpenSSH packages with High Performance SSH/SCP (HPN) patches in EPEL 7 and EPEL 8.  HPN patches improve remote file copy performance for scp.  Our XSEDE GCT GSI-SSH documentation has been updated to reflect the new GCT GSI-SSH release at https://software.xsede.org/production/gsi-openssh-server-xsede/INSTALL.

GCT GSI-OpenSSH includes HPN starting with these versions:

• "gsi-openssh-7.4p1-6" (EPEL 7, details on [1])

• "gsi-openssh-8.0p1-5" (EPEL 8, details on [2])

[1]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7e2b65b63e

[2]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-8f4051fdc0

GCT is also working on making GSI-OpenSSH w/HPN available for Fedora.

GSI-OpenSSH packages for SUSE also contain the HPN patch(es) beginning with SLES 15 (SP1) and OpenSUSE Leap 15.1. Instructions for the installation of these can be found on [3].

[3]: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Afrank_scheiner%3Agct&package=gsi-openssh