diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HPCX/HPCX-2.3.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HPCX/HPCX-2.3.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9149ad33f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HPCX/HPCX-2.3.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+easyblock = 'Bundle'
+
+name = 'HPCX'
+version = '2.3.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=189&mtag=hpc-x'
+description = """The Mellanox HPC-X Toolkit
+is a comprehensive MPI and SHMEM/PGAS software suite
+for high performance computing environments"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '8.2.0-2.31.1'}
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('UCX', '1.5.0rc1', '-hpcx'),
+    ('OpenMPI', '4.0.0', '-hpcx')
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'mpi'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-4.0.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1-hpcx.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-4.0.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1-hpcx.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..892e9959bb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenMPI/OpenMPI-4.0.0-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1-hpcx.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'OpenMPI'
+version = '4.0.0'
+versionsuffix = '-hpcx'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.open-mpi.org/'
+description = """Mellanox flavored Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-3 implementation."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '8.2.0-2.31.1'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v%(version_major_minor)s/downloads']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['36f10daa3f1b1d37530f686bf7f70966b2a13c0bc6e2e05aebc7e85e3d21b10d']
+
+# needed for --with-verbs
+osdependencies = [('libibverbs-dev', 'libibverbs-devel', 'rdma-core-devel')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('UCX', '1.5.0rc1', '-hpcx')
+]
+
+configopts = '--with-libevent=internal --enable-mpi1-compatibility '
+configopts = '--with-slurm --with-platform=contrib/platform/mellanox/optimized '
+configopts += '--with-ucx=$EBROOTUCX '
+
+libs = ["mpi_mpifh", "mpi", "ompitrace", "open-pal", "open-rte"]
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ["bin/%s" % binfile for binfile in ["ompi_info", "opal_wrapper", "orterun"]] +
+             ["lib/lib%s.%s" % (libfile, SHLIB_EXT) for libfile in libs] +
+             ["include/%s.h" % x for x in ["mpi-ext", "mpif-config", "mpif", "mpi", "mpi_portable_platform"]],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'mpi'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCX/UCX-1.5.0rc1-GCCcore-8.2.0-hpcx.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCX/UCX-1.5.0rc1-GCCcore-8.2.0-hpcx.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c8fe8f4c5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCX/UCX-1.5.0rc1-GCCcore-8.2.0-hpcx.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Note:
+# This is an easyconfig file for EasyBuild, see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'UCX'
+version = '1.5.0rc1'
+versionsuffix = '-hpcx'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.openucx.org/'
+description = """Unified Communication X
+An open-source production grade communication framework for data centric
+and high-performance applications
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '8.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/openucx/ucx/releases/download/v1.5.0-rc1']
+sources = [{
+    'filename': 'ucx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz',
+    'download_filename': 'ucx-1.5.0.tar.gz'
+}]
+checksums = ['ae5dfa59c54627a11d8cb1c7fdd0b0319e5e8633a6aebd42a07e54a6a4a32181']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.31.1'),
+    ('pkg-config', '0.29.2'),
+]
+
+osdependencies = [('libibverbs-dev', 'libibverbs-devel', 'rdma-core-devel')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('numactl', '2.0.12'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--enable-optimizations --enable-optimizations --disable-logging '
+configopts += '--disable-debug --disable-assertions --disable-params-check '
+configopts += '--without-java --disable-doxygen-doc '
+
+buildopts = 'V=1'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/ucx_info', 'bin/ucx_perftest', 'bin/ucx_read_profile'],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'lib', 'share']
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'mpi'