9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

The ComputeOps project: containers for HPC

10 Jul 2018, 16:00
1h
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

National Culture Palace, Boulevard "Bulgaria", 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poster Track 7 – Clouds, virtualization and containers Posters

Speaker

Cecile Cavet (APC)

Description

The High Performance Computing (HPC) domain aims to optimize code in order to use the last multicore and parallel technologies including specific processor instructions. In this computing framework, portability and reproducibility are key concepts. A way to handle these requirements is to use Linux containers. These "light virtual machines" allow to encapsulate applications within its environment in Linux processes. Containers has been recently rediscovered due to their abilities to provide both multi-infrastructure environnement for developers and system administrators and reproducibility due to image building file. Two container solutions are emerging: Docker (1) for micro-services and Singularity (2) for computing applications.

We present here the ComputeOps project which has the goal to study the benefit of containers for HPC applications. This three years project starting in 2018 will provide innovative deliverables such as containerized tutorials, a Singularity Hub for Research, a catalog of manifests allowing the computing reproducibility and a multi-ressources scheduler based on XtremWeb-HEP (3) allowing to launch jobs both on virtual machines and bare metal containers. In collaboration with public and private partners, the project will provide to developers testing platforms with recent processors such as Nvidia GPU and Xeon Phi. Based on several use cases such as ray tracing and machine learning applications using the TensorFlow library, we will present the first results of the ComputeOps project.

(1) Docker: https://www.docker.com/
(2) Singularity: http://singularity.lbl.gov/
(3) XtremWeb-HEP: https://xtremweb-hep.lal.in2p3.fr/

Primary authors

Cecile Cavet (APC) Aurélien Bailly-Reyre (LPNHE/ISCD) David Chamont (LAL) Olivier Dadoun (LAL) Pascale Hennion (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Oleg Lodygensky (LAL - IN2P3 - CNRS) Gérard Marchal-Duval (LAL) Emmanuel Medernach (University of Champagne-Ardennes Reims) Victor Mendoza (LPNHE - IN2P3 - CNRS) Jerome Pansanel (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR)) Andrea Sartirana (LLR - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Martin Souchal (APC) Julien Tugler (LLR)

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