Résumé: Scientific research is becoming increasingly global and has to address challenges that cannot be handled by small groups or individual researchers. Global research initiatives are often facing the lack of cooperative computing frameworks and storage resources. Such frameworks and resources are needed to address scientific problems at large scales. This paper investigates the potential of using container technologies over distributed computing infrastructure in the astrophysics domain. Due to the complexity of astrophysics applications, it is necessary to enable a parallelism pipeline for their execution. Such applications require High-Performance-Computing (HPC) environments to enable easy and reproducible deployment of astrophysics applications across multiple HPC cites "BRANE". BRANE provides easy and transparent access to end-users, allowing them to define their execution pipeline.

Langue: Anglais

Mots clés:
Virtualization
Computing
Containerization
Astrophysical applications