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Deploying Containers on Secure HPC Systems
DescriptionThere is increasing interest in the use of containerized workflows on high performance computing (HPC) systems from the research community and industry to tackle “real world” problems, which requires HPC resources to efficiently compute and scale complex algorithms across thousands of nodes. Unfortunately, a lot of scientists and HPC center staff are not familiar with the unique requirements and characteristics of deploying containerized workflows on secure HPC environments. They usually develop their HPC workflows and policies for non-containerized environments and don’t fully appreciate how containerized workflows and policies deviate from their standard mode of operation. This often leads to misunderstanding of how to deploy and execute containers on HPC systems, specifically in maintaining the security of the HPC system when running containers. In this presentation we discuss the issues associated with the deployment of containers in a secure HPC environment and techniques that can potentially make deploying containers easier.
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