@article{Zhang2017, 
author = {Wusheng Zhang and Jiao Lin and Weiping Xu and Haohuan Fu and Guangwen Yang},
title = {SCStore: Managing Scientific Computing Packages for Hybrid System with Containers},
year = {2017},
journal = {Tsinghua Science and Technology},
volume = {22},
number = {6},
pages = {675-681},
keywords = {container, hybrid system, high performance computing, package management},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/TST.2017.8195349},
doi = {10.23919/TST.2017.8195349},
abstract = {Managing software packages in a scientific computing environment is a challenging task, especially in the case of heterogeneous systems. It is error prone when installing and updating software packages in a sophisticated computing environment. Testing and performance evaluation in an on-the-fly manner is also a troublesome task for a production system. In this paper, we discuss a package management scheme based on containers. The newly developed method can ease the maintenance complexity and reduce human mistakes. We can benefit from the self-containing and isolation features of container technologies for maintaining the software packages among intricately connected clusters. By deploying the SuperComputing application Strore (SCStore) over the WAN connected world-largest clusters, it proved that it can greatly reduce the effort for maintaining the consistency of software environment and bring benefit to achieve automation.}
}