Containers are increasingly used as means to distribute and run Linux services and applications. In this paper we describe the architectural design and implementation of udocker, a tool which enables the user to execute Linux containers in user mode. We also present a few practical applications, using a range of scientific codes characterized by different requirements: from single core execution to MPI parallel execution and execution on GPGPUs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.01758,
title = {Enabling rootless Linux Containers in multi-user environments: the udocker tool},
author = {Jorge Gomes and Isabel Campos and Emanuele Bagnaschi and Mario David and Luis Alves and Joao Martins and Joao Pina and Alvaro Lopez-Garcia and Pablo Orviz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01758},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Computing Physics Communications