Journal
TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 675-681Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.23919/TST.2017.8195349
Keywords
high performance computing; package management; container; hybrid system
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0602100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91530323]
- Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Data Analysis and Applications, SOA [LDAA-2014-03]
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Managing software packages in a scientific computing environment is a challenging task, especially in the case of heterogeneous systems. It is error prone when installing and updating software packages in a sophisticated computing environment. Testing and performance evaluation in an on-the-fly manner is also a troublesome task for a production system. In this paper, we discuss a package management scheme based on containers. The newly developed method can ease the maintenance complexity and reduce human mistakes. We can benefit from the self-containing and isolation features of container technologies for maintaining the software packages among intricately connected clusters. By deploying the SuperComputing application Strore (SCStore) over the WAN connected world-largest clusters, it proved that it can greatly reduce the effort for maintaining the consistency of software environment and bring benefit to achieve automation.
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