Looking For A Singularity Event For Scientific Computing
There are people who build big machines and then there are people who create the algorithms, libraries, and applications that harness them. …
There are people who build big machines and then there are people who create the algorithms, libraries, and applications that harness them. …
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
The recent announcement by the CentOS project to discontinue mirroring Red Hat releases, which The Next Platform has already reported on, has hit some sectors hard. …
Containerized high performance computing is fast becoming one of the more popular ways of running HPC workloads. …
It is fair to say that containers in HPC are a big deal. …
Containerization as a concept of isolating application processes while sharing the same operating system (OS) kernel has been around since the beginning of this century. …
For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. …
Containers are an extremely mobile, safe and reproducible computing infrastructure that is now ready for production HPC computing. …
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