Container in HPC

Linux Containers continue to gain momentum within data centers all over the world. They are able to benefit legacy infrastructures by leveraging the lower overhead compared to traditional, hypervisor-based virtualization. After last year’s panel discussion within the ‘Invited Program’ this proposed session about containers within the This BoF will recap the challenges for containerized workloads in HPC (kernel-bypass, shared POSIX file-system, distributed computing) and provide an overview of the HPC container landscape by segmenting it in palatable slices.

1. How to run a containerized process in HPC? 2. How to build a container so that it is portable and performant? 3. How to distribute a container image across sites and projects? 4. What HPC specifics need to be taken into account?

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Contributors:

• Shane Canon (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs)
• Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez (Red Hat)
• Christian Kniep (QNIB Solutions)
• Andrew Younge (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Jonathan Sparks (HPE/Cray)