[aspect-devel] Interest in providing and using software containers

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

On 02/06/2017 02:10 PM, Rene Gassmoeller wrote:
>
> - Given that Docker for me is therefore a solution for automated tasks on
> personal laptops or desktops it does not seem critical to reduce the slowdown
> of a VM (30%) to that of a container (<5% on Linux / 10% on Windows using
> docker-vm). If large HPC centers would start to use Docker instead of their
> current module systems I could see that encouraging users to start with docker
> on their local machine would ease the transition towards using clusters, but I
> do not know if that is happening?

Oh, hallelujah, please someone make that happen!

Cheers
  W.

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