Christian Kniep

While containerization revolutionized the delivery and execution of software, it introduces new challenges as the usual practice with one big software file-system with a subsequent module load to rule all environments is not feasible with containers. This lighting talk introduces the 'HPC Container Conformance' Project which aims to provide guidance on how to build container images and how to…

While containerization revolutionized the delivery and execution of software, it introduces new challenges as the usual practice with one big software file-system with a subsequent module load to rule all environments is not feasable with containers. The talk introduces the 'HPC Container Conformance' Project which aims to provide guidance on how to build container images and how to annotate them…

This short talk will disect the container ecosystem for HPC in four segments and discusses what to look out for, what is already settled and how to navigate containers in 2022.

The Container ecosystem spans from spawning a process into an isolated and constrained region of the kernel at bottom layer, building and distributing images just above to discussions on how to schedule a fleet of containers around the world at the very top. While the top layers get all the attention and buzz, this session will base-line the audiences' understanding of how to execute containers.