Container Orchestration on HPC Systems
Naweiluo Zhou, Yiannis Georgiou, Zhong Li, Huan Zhou, Marcin Pospieszny
Abstract
Containerisation demonstrates its efficiency in application deployment in cloud computing. Containers can encapsulate complex programs with their dependencies in isolated environments, hence are being adopted in HPC clusters. HPC workload managers lack micro-services support and deeply integrated container management, as opposed to container orchestrators (e.g. Kubernetes). We introduce Torque-Operator (a plugin) which serves as a bridge between HPC workload managers and container Orchestrators.
Topics & Concepts
OrchestrationContainer (type theory)Cloud computingComputer scienceWorkloadSoftware deploymentOperating systemPlug-inVirtualizationSoftware engineeringSupercomputerBridge (graph theory)Distributed computingEngineeringMechanical engineeringArtVisual artsMedicineInternal medicineMusicalDistributed and Parallel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and Resource ManagementScientific Computing and Data Management