SCStore: Managing Scientific Computing Packages for Hybrid System with Containers

• 来源期刊: 清华大学学报自然科学版（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（6）
• 页码范围: 675-681
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

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.