NVIDIA Simplifies Building Containers for HPC Applications

In this video, CJ Newburn from NVIDIA describes how developers can quickly containerize their applications and how users can benefit from running their workloads with containers from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud.

"A container essentially creates a self contained environment. Your application lives in that container along with everything the application depends on, so the whole bundle is self contained.

That solves a couple problems. One of the key problems that that deals with is that if you had an application and you sent it to me, I could spend a long time trying to figure out everything I need to actually make that run with all those dependences. And I might not have them so I might need to go get them one by one. And the assumptions that you made might not jive with my understanding of those. Even if I'm an expert, I might spend a couple days trying to do that. And in the end, I might still not run that application in the way that you intended. Instead, you can essentially deliver to me a container that basically runs itself, that has all of the dependences, and runs itself with the environment that you intended it to run.