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Unikernel and Advanced Container Support in the Socker Tool

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Linux containers, with the build-once-run-anywhere approach, are becoming popular among scientific communities for software packaging and sharing. Docker is the most popular and user friendly platform for running and managing Linux containers. Unikernels are single-application fully virtualised lightweight packages designed to run as virtual machines. For some applications, unikernels can be alternative to containers due to the benefits they provide in terms of performance and security. presents an update for Socker, a wrapper for running Docker containers on Slurm that enforces running unpriviliges containers within Slurm jobs. The update to Socker includes: Improved security, MPI support, and support for OSv unikernels.

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This work was financially supported by the PRACE-6IP project [16] funded in part by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (2014–2020) under grant agreement 823767.

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Azab, A. (2022). Unikernel and Advanced Container Support in the Socker Tool. In: Qiu, M., Gai, K., Qiu, H. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97774-0_47

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