SCStore： Managing Scientific Computing Packages for Hybrid System with Containers  

作　　者：Wusheng Zhang Jiao Lin Weiping Xu Haohuan Fu Guangwen Yang 

机构地区：[1]Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2]National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Wuxi 210008, China [3]Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. [4]Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

出　　处：《Tsinghua Science and Technology》2017年第6期675-681,共7页清华大学学报（自然科学版（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFA0602100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.91530323);Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Data Analysis and Applications,SOA(No.LDAA-2014-03)

摘　　要：Managing software packages in a scientific computing environment is a challenging task, especially in the case of heterogeneous systems. It is error prone when installing and updating software packages in a sophisticated computing environment. Testing and performance evaluation in an on-the-fly manner is also a troublesome task for a production system. In this paper, we discuss a package management scheme based on containers. The newly developed method can ease the maintenance complexity and reduce human mistakes. We can benefit from the self-containing and isolation features of container technologies for maintaining the software packages among intricately connected clusters. By deploying the Super Computing application Strore（SCStore） over the WAN connected world-largest clusters, it proved that it can greatly reduce the effort for maintaining the consistency of software environment and bring benefit to achieve automation.Managing software packages in a scientific computing environment is a challenging task, especially in the case of heterogeneous systems. It is error prone when installing and updating software packages in a sophisticated computing environment. Testing and performance evaluation in an on-the-fly manner is also a troublesome task for a production system. In this paper, we discuss a package management scheme based on containers. The newly developed method can ease the maintenance complexity and reduce human mistakes. We can benefit from the self-containing and isolation features of container technologies for maintaining the software packages among intricately connected clusters. By deploying the Super Computing application Strore（SCStore） over the WAN connected world-largest clusters, it proved that it can greatly reduce the effort for maintaining the consistency of software environment and bring benefit to achieve automation.

关 键 词：high performance computing package management container hybrid system 

分 类 号：TP311.5[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]