Shipping Science Worldwide with Open Source Containers

Abstract:

Scientific applications often present difficult web-hosting needs. Their compute- and data-intensive nature, as well as an increasing need for high-availability and distribution, combine to create a challenging set of hosting requirements.

In the past year, advancements in container-based virtualization and related tooling have offered new lightweight and flexible ways to accommodate diverse applications with all the isolation and portability benefits of traditional virtualization. This session will introduce and demonstrate an open-source, single-interface, Platform-as-a-Serivce (PaaS) that empowers application developers to seamlessly leverage geographically distributed, public and private compute resources to achieve highly-available, performant hosting for scientific applications.