On 22-May-2019 12:00, Gerald Henriksen wrote
Paper on arXiv that may be of interest to some as it may be where HPC
is heading even for private clusters:
Evalutation of Docker Containers for Scientific Workloads in the Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08415
Docker is fine so long as the program which is supplied in a Docker
image is also supplied as source code in a form that other people can
build relatively easily in other Linux environments. Minimally that
means some form of Makefile, enough documentation that it doesn't take a
superhuman effort to push it through a compiler, and a few test cases to
verify that the binary is working properly.
Unfortunately distributing a program in a Docker image seems to have
become the latest excuse for not writing portable code (in the
bioinformatics arena, anyway).
Regards,
David Mathog
mat...@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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