Sarus - An OCI-compatible container engine for HPC
release: 1.7.0-4-g3578b9c
Sarus is a software to run Linux containers on High Performance Computing environments. Its development has been driven by the specific requirements of HPC systems, while leveraging open standards and technologies to encourage vendor and community involvement.
Key features:
Spawning of isolated software environments (containers), built by users to fit the deployment of a specific application
Security oriented to HPC systems
Extensible runtime by means of OCI hooks to allow current and future support of custom hardware while achieving native performance
Creation of container filesystems tailored for diskless nodes and parallel filesystems
Compatibility with the presence of a workload manager
Compatibility with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) standards:
Can pull images from registries adopting the OCI Distribution Specification or the Docker Registry HTTP API V2 protocol
Can import and convert images adopting the OCI Image Format
Sets up a container bundle complying to the OCI Runtime Specification
Uses an OCI-compliant runtime to spawn the container process
Publications
Benedicic, L., Cruz, F.A., Madonna, A. and Mariotti, K., 2019, June. Sarus: Highly Scalable Docker Containers for HPC Systems. In International Conference on High Performance Computing (pp. 46-60). Springer, Cham.