Container and Container Management NHR Project

The installation and configuration of applications in HPC is highly dependent on the actual software and hardware environment that users find on the HPC systems of the data centers (OS distribution, libraries, modules, network, architectures). This usually complicates the version provisioning of the software as well as migration between data centers. Both are usually associated with a certain support effort. When moving to cloud resources (for instance, to offer applications as on-demand services) or to user’s hardware (for small tests and development) the software environment must be reproduced manually. This project aims to mitigate these issues and offer a solution for users, also considering possible performance degradation due to different hardware used for building software within the container and running it.

Apart from user containers, many HPC services could be offered for users in HPC using container management services and be migrated or duplicated between HPC centres.

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Contributors:

• Azat Khuziyakhmetov (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG))