Abstract

Science reproducibility is a cornerstone feature in scientific workflows. In most cases, this has been implemented as a way to exactly reproduce the computational steps taken to reach the final results. While these steps are often completely described, including the input parameters, datasets, and codes, the environment in which these steps are executed is only described at a higher level with endpoints and operating system name and versions. Though this may be sufficient for reproducibility in the short term, systems evolve and are replaced over time, breaking the underlying workflow reproducibility. A natural solution to this problem is containers, as they are well defined, have a lifetime independent of the underlying system, and can be user-controlled so that they can provide custom environments if needed. This paper highlights some unique challenges that may arise when using containers in distributed scientific …

Metadata

publication

2019 15th International Conference on eScience (eScience), 281-290, 2019

year

2019

publication date

2019/9/24

authors

Karan Vahi, Mats Rynge, George Papadimitriou, Duncan A Brown, Rajiv Mayani, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Ewa Deelman, Anirban Mandal, Eric Lyons, Michael Zink

link

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9041700/

resource_link

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08204

conference

2019 15th International Conference on eScience (eScience)

pages

281-290

publisher

IEEE