Introduction to containers in HPC

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• What is a container and how is it different from a virtual machine?

• What are some of the benefits of containers and how can containers help me do my job better?

Objectives

• Learn the basics about what a container is

• Learn why there are special container runtimes used in HPC.

This will be a slide presentation that will provide background information about containers and their use in HPC.

Key Points

• Containers encapsulate all of the dependences needed to run an application

• HPC container runtimes exists to address some special requirements typically found in HPC.