Annual High Performance Container Workshop @ISC¶

The High Performance Container Workshop series assembles thought leaders to provide the 'state of containers' and the latest trends since 2015.

For 2023 the 9^th Annual High Performance Container Workshop was accepted as a half-day workshop for the ISC23 and will be held on Thursday 5/25, 2PM - 6PM.

Focus 2023¶

HPC Container Conformance¶

In 2022 the HPC community started a project to create a set of annotations for HPC applications and provide guidelines of how HPC container images are build. Two applications were chosen: GROMACS as a HPC application and PyTorch as a AI/ML stand-in. The usual segmentation of the workshop will reflect the effort in the specific segment and will be a thread that spans the workshop.

ISV/Industry¶

The workshop in 2022 showed that we need to include more industry and ISV's participants in the workshop. I am very happy that Gunther Mayer from Volkswagen will join us and give a talk about the use of containers in the automotive industry and his challenges. We are also looking for more speakers from the industry to join us.

Friends of HPC Containers Boat Trip¶

After last years successful first incarnation of the Friends of HPC Containers Boat Trip, we are planning to do it again. The date is set to Tuesday, May 23^rd in the evening hours - around 6PM. Please mark the evening already! Learn more

Please fill out this google form to sign up for the boat trip. We only got 50 seats on the boat, so please sign up early.

Sponsorship¶

Platinum Sponsors¶

UberCloud was one of the founding members of the workshop in 2015 I am very happy that UberCloud decided to help sponsor the boat trip. Thank you very much!

Gold Sponsors¶

The second tier sponsors are NI SP, Eviden/science+computing ag (former Atos/sc), MemVerge, Microsoft Azure and the MetaHub Registry project.

If you are interested in sponsoring the boat trip, please contact me - we are still looking for sponsors to cover the costs.

Agenda¶

Since we only have a half-day workshop, we will slightly shy away from the usual format of sticking to the segments (Run,Build,Orchestration,etc.) and tighten the agenda a bit.

In the first 2h part (before the coffee break) we are going to discuss the HPC Container Conformance project, get project updates from runtimes, touch on interesting developments and have a panel wrapping this section up.

The second part will focus on the different site aspects of containers in HPC with slots from Volkswagen, and sites focusing on public users as well as industry users. The final panel will wrap up the workshop and give a chance for the audience to ask questions.

Start	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
14:00	Overview "HPC Container Conformance"	Christian Kniep	QNIB Solutions
14:10	Runtime Project Updates
	1. Podman	Valentin Rothberg	RedHat
	2. Singularity	David Trudgian	Sylabs
	3. Sarus	Alberto Madonna	CSCS
	4. Charliecloud	Megan Phinney	LANL
14:45	HPCW Project/Tools
	1. Using container snapshot to right-size workloads	Bernie Wu	MemVerge
	2. Zstandard compression benefits for HPC	Valentin Rothberg	RedHat
	3. Container Build Tool Overview (Spack/EasyBuild/HPCCM)	Andrew Younge	Sandia
	4. Scalable workflow infrastructure orchestrating the entire process	Bill Sparks	HPE
	5. MetaHub Registry	Christian Kniep	QNIB Solutions
15:30	Project Panel
	- How do utilize annotations in runtimes?
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	ISV/Industry
	1. Container challenges and opertunities for Volkswagen	Gunther Mayer	Volkswagen
	2. Experience with containers at HLRS	Kamil Tokmakov	HLRS
	3. Confidential computing and DPUs	CJ Newburn	NVIDIA
	4. State of Container Adoption at Enterprise HPC Users	Holger Gantikow	EVIDEN
17:00	Containers at National HPC Sites
	1. From Shifter to Podman at NERSC	Shane Canon	LBNL
	2. Containers at EuroHPC Sites	Abdulrahman Azab,Barbara Krasovec	Uni. of Oslo, Jozef Stefan Institute
	3. Containers as first-class HPC components	Alberto Madonna	CSCS
17:20	Final Panel
18:00	Workshop Closes