Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

2019-05-24 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 5/22/19 6:10 AM, 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: In case it's of interest NERSC has a page on how Shifter does containers and how it packs filesystems to improve performance here: https://

Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

2019-05-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 24 May 2019 03:41:11 +, you wrote: >You mention to move data to storage how is fedora's gnome desktop edition >going to achieve that? Wont one need to use some sort of block storage on aws, >google cloud, azure or host your own setup in house? No idea, given that I don't like Gnome

Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

2019-05-24 Thread Bill Broadley
> A downside of containers is MUCH less visibility from the host OS. Sorry, I meant to say a downside of *virtual machines* is MUCH less visibility from the host OS. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change

Re: [Beowulf] Containers in HPC

2019-05-24 Thread Bill Broadley
On 5/23/19 5:35 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:> Thanks for the great explanation and clarification. Another question that stems from the below what mechanisms exist in terms of security for the containers to be as secure as a VM? As usual with security it's complicated. Both VPSs and containers hav