Webinar - Sarus: Towards HPC Performance for Portable Containers

Sarus is a container engine aiming to bridge the gap between container portability and native HPC performance. Leveraging container customization through open standard plugins, it enables maximum hardware performance starting from generic Docker images. Sarus has been designed to integrate with unique features of HPC infrastructures such as parallel filesystem, batch schedulers, GPU accelerators or MPI, while providing a familiar Docker-style command-line interface.

November 16, 2021 - by CSCS

This webinar provides insights about Sarus' modular architecture, highlight some HPC-specific features and illustrate the advantages that hook programs (i.e. plugins) adopting the OCI specifications bring to users, system administrators and developers alike. Thanks to their standalone nature and industry standard interface, OCI hooks can be independently developed to target specific features, and can be configured according to the characteristics of particular host systems. The same container image can thus be used across the whole development workflow, benefiting from the advantages of each platform.

The presentation also discusses a quick installation and setup procedure for Sarus, giving references for advanced configuration. Finally, basic Sarus usage and container customization capabilities will be showcased, as well as comparative performance results with native applications at scale.

Further information about Sarus available on the products website >