Re: [Beowulf] Docker vs KVM paper by IBM

2015-01-29 Thread Gavin W. Burris
On 05:09PM Wed 01/28/15 -0800, Egan Ford wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Gavin W. Burris > wrote: > > I guess I would have to ask a few questions of the developer considering > > docker... WHY do you need to be outside of a self-contained directory? > > Given that this is mostly an

Re: [Beowulf] Docker vs KVM paper by IBM

2015-01-29 Thread Andrew Holway
It seems that in environments where you don't care about security then docker is a great enabler so that scientists can make any kind of mess in a sandbox type environment and no one cares because your not on a public facing network. There are however difficulties in using docker with mpi so its pr