As the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has evolved since its inception in 2016, what’s known as containers technology and how it fits into the wider scheme of exascale computing and high-performance computing (HPC) has been an area of ongoing interest in its own right within the HPC community.
Container technology has revolutionized software development and deployment for many industries and enterprises because it provides greater software flexibility, reliability, ease of deployment, and portability for users. But several challenges must be addressed to get containers ready for exascale computing.
The Supercontainers project, one of ECP’s newest efforts, aims to deliver containers and virtualization technologies for productivity, portability, and performance on the first exascale computing machines, which are planned for 2021.
ECP’s Let’s Talk Exascale podcast features as a guest Supercontainers project team member Andrew Younge of Sandia National Laboratories. The interview was recorded this past November in Denver at SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
