@inproceedings{3c07d6d5556446e5b9d1f3dc9d403e64,
title = "Container solutions for HPC systems: A case study of using shifter on blue waters",
abstract = "Software container solutions have revolutionized application development approaches by enabling lightweight platform abstractions within the so-called “containers.” Several solutions are being actively developed in attempts to bring the benefits of containers to high-performance computing systems with their stringent security demands on the one hand and fundamental resource sharing requirements on the other. In this paper, we discuss the benefits and short-comings of such solutions when deployed on real HPC systems and applied to production scientific applications. We highlight use cases that are either enabled by or significantly benefit from such solutions. We discuss the efforts by HPC system administrators and support staff to support users of these type of workloads on HPC systems not initially designed with these workloads in mind focusing on NCSA's Blue Waters system.",
keywords = "Data Science, Petascale, Reproducibility",
author = "Maxim Belkin and Leong, {Hon Wai} and Roland Haas and Huerta, {Eliu A.} and Mark Neubauer and Arnold, {Galen Wesley} and David Lesny",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to the Association for Computing Machinery.; 2018 Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference: Seamless Creativity, PEARC 2018 ; Conference date: 22-07-2017 Through 26-07-2017",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1145/3219104.3219145",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450364461",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2018",
address = "United States",
}