Topics

• Container runtimes, virtual machine implementations, and other related technologies
• Perspectives from container framework developers and maintainers
• System and architecture portability
• Scientific reproducibility, including FAIR considerations
• Experience reports from users, developers, and system administrators
• Lessons from exascale
• HPC in the cloud and/or cloud in the HPC
• GPUs, accelerators, proprietary interconnects, and other hardware considerations
• Security considerations when adopting container technologies, including zero trust models
• Container and virtual machine image management, including distribution and archiving
• Workflows, including interaction between traditional HPC applications and containerized workflows or edge services
• Performance and scaling studies with containers and/or VMs
• Orchestration, scheduling, and/or resource management of jobs and microservices
• New interaction techniques such as web apps (Jupyter, Rstudio, etc.)
• Community standards, including OCI
• Role of containerization in DevOps (ex: Gitlab CI/CD)
• Efforts to provide and curate containers
• Improving container user experience
• Future of containers (ex: web assembly, portability)
• Perspectives on container outreach- convincing native application users/devs to make the jump