面向高性能计算系统的容器技术综述

Survey of Container Technology for High-performance Computing System

容器技术在云计算行业已得到普遍使用,主要用于服务软件环境的快速移植和自动化部署。随着高性能计算、大数据、人工智能技术的深度融合,高性能计算系统的应用软件依赖和配置日益复杂,超算中心对用户自定义软件栈的需求越来越强烈。因此,容器技术在高性能计算系统的应用环境下也发展出多种实现软件,以满足用户自定义软件栈等实际需求。文中总结了容器技术的发展历史,阐述了容器在Linux平台的技术原理,分析并评价了于适用高性能计算系统的容器实现软件,最后展望未来面向高性能计算系统的容器技术研究方向。

Container technology has been widely used in the cloud computing industry,mainly for rapid migration and automated deployment of service software environments.With the deep integration of high performance computing,big data and artificial intelligence technologies,the application software dependency and configuration of high performance computing systems are beco-ming increasingly complex,and the demand for user-defined software stacks in supercomputing centers is getting stronger.Therefore,in the application environment of high-performance computing systems,a variety of container implementations have also been developed to meet the practical needs such as user-defined software stacks.This paper summarizes the development history of container technology,explains the technical principles of containers in Linux platform,analyzes and evaluates the container implementation software for high-performance computing systems,and finally the future research direction of container technology for high-performance computing system is prospected.