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 2025 the 11th Annual High Performance Container Workshop was accepted as a full-day workshop for the ISC25 and was held in Hamburg on 6/13.
Friends of HPC Containers Boat Trip¶
After two years of having the Friends of HPC Containers Boat Trip, we did assemble again on the evening before the workshop (6/12, Thursday at approx 6:30PM). We got abord a little ship and cruised on the Alster in Hamburg - a nice evening with drinks. Learn more
Sponsors¶
We were able to get a couple of sponsors to support us! Thank you very much - without that it would be impossible to pull the workshop and boat trip off!
Platinum Sponsors¶
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MemVerge is sponsored for the first boat trip. Thank you very much for your support!
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Simr (previously known as UberCloud) was one of the founding members of the workshop in 2015. Simr decided to help sponsor the boat trip. Thank you very much!
- DoItNow is a recurring sponsor as well. Thank you very much for your support!
Agenda¶
| CEST | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Media | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Workshop Welcome | Christian Kniep | QNIB Solutions/MemVerge | |||
| Components and Project Updates | ||||||
| 09:05 | Best practices and what we want (not) to talk about | David Brayford | HPE | Slides | ||
| 09:20 | Evolving Sarus to augment Podman for HPC | Alberto Madonna | CSCS | Slides | ||
| 09:35 | Building container images with Spack | Harmen Stoppels | Stoppels Consulting | Slides | ||
| 09:50 | User-Centric Image Building in HPC Environments | Anton Tustanowski, Hubert Mazur | Wrocław University | |||
| 10:05 | OCI WG: Image Compatibility part of NFD | Marcin Franczyk | Slides | |||
| 10:20 | GraphiContainer for HPC and Workstations | Gunther Meyer,Daniel Stone | VW/Collabora | Slides | ||
| 10:35 | Bridging the Gap: A Strategic Learning Path for Onboarding New Users to Containers in HPC | Junaid Mir | University Duisburg | |||
| 10:45 | Segment Panel | * | ||||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||||
| AI Factories | ||||||
| 11:30 | EuroHPC AI Factory ecosystem (LUMI et al) | Abdulrahman Azab | ||||
| 11:45 | ORAS and how to store models and embeddings | Bill Sparks | HPE | Slides | ||
| 12:00 | Transparent Hot-Swapping of Containerized AI/ML Workloads | Radostin Stoyanov | Oxford | Slides | ||
| 12:15 | K8s Snapshot/Restore Operator | Christian Kniep | QNIB Solutions/MemVerge | Slides | ||
| 12:30 | From HPC clusters to AI platforms: 5 use cases side by side | Farouk Mansouri | Luxprovide | Slides | ||
| 12:45 | Segment Panel | * | ||||
| 13:00 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Security & Data Architectures | ||||||
| 14:00 | Secure usage of containers in multi-tenant HPC environments | Barbara Krasovec & Holger Gantikow | Slides | |||
| 14:10 | Confidential Computing and Containers | CJ Newburn | NVIDA | Slides | ||
| 14:20 | Confidential Computing: Containers on Bare Metal | Viktória Spišaková,Lukáš Hejtmánek | e-INFRA CZ | Slides | ||
| Kubernetes in HPC & AI/ML | ||||||
| 14:35 | Kubernetes on Alps | Federico da Forno | CSCS | |||
| 15:00 | Dynamic Resource Allocation and Node Information | CJ Newburn | NVIDA | Slides | ||
| 15:15 | Scheduler and tenancy soup | Bill Sparks | HPE | Slides | ||
| 15:30 | MemVerge.AI | Jing Xie | MemVerge | |||
| 15:45 | Segment Panel | * | ||||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||
| User Stories & Q/A | ||||||
| 16:30 | SimOps - The DevOps for HPC sysadmins | Wolfgang Gentzsch | Simr | Slides | ||
| 16:45 | Containers in Automotive - State of the Union 2025 | Gunther Meyer, Holger Gantikow | VW/Eviden | Slides | ||
| 17:00 | LUMI HPC container deployment workflow | Abdulrahman Azab | Sigma2 AS | Slides | ||
| 17:15 | The Splendors and Miseries of Containers in e-INFRA CZ | Viktória Spišaková,Lukáš Hejtmánek | e-INFRA CZ | Slides | ||
| 17:30 | Bioinformatic workflows | Jing Xie | MemVerge | |||
| 17:45 | Conclusion Panel | * | ||||
| 18:00 | Workshop End |