The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Workshop:CANOPIE-HPC: Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC
Authors: David Brayford (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), John Brennan and Niall Moran (Irish Centre for High‑End Computing (ICHEC)), Luigi iapichino and Mommer Allalen (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), and Lee O'Riordan and Kenneth Hanley (Irish Centre for High‑End Computing (ICHEC))
Abstract: The need to easily customize, reproduce and migrate applications and workflows is steadily increasing amongst the High Performance Computing (HPC) community, as non-traditional HPC software environments and applications are starting to require HPC resources to tackle “real world” scientific problems. In addition, traditional HPC software are becoming more complex and are often deployed on multiple different architectures.
In this paper, we discuss the issues associated with the deployment of the QuantEX quantum computing simulation software within containers on different HPC systems. Also, we compare the performance of the containerized software with the software running on “bare metal”.