Infrastructure Providers for Container Use
The aim is to survey the EnhanceR Partners and other Swiss infrastructure providers for container use.
In case that you provide also consultancy services please fill in this survey from the perspective of an infrastructure provider.

The 8 units involved in EnhanceR are: HES-SO (LSDS), EPFL (SCITAS), SIB (Vital-IT), UNIBE (ScITS), FMI (Informatics), UNIBAS (sciCORE), UZH (S3IT), ETHZ (SIS).

The aim is to provide one answer per unit, so please coordinate with your colleagues and provide one answer representative for the entire unit.


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What is the name of your unit?
In case you want a copy of the survey results, please provide your contact email.
Do you agree to distribute anonymised/aggregated answers outside EnhanceR?
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What type of infrastructure do you provide? a)Type: cluster/VMs/cloud; b) OS; c)Architecture/vendor; d) Job scheduler
Do you support container technology for your infrastructure?
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If so, what container solution do you provide and why (technology and major version)?
Does your infrastructure support HPC technologies like GPU computing, MPI? Are they supported for container workflows?
How do you test the container technology on your infrastructure?
Which communication channels do you use to monitor developments in container technology?
How many research groups and users (aggregated by research field) are asking for or using containers?
Do you provide documentation and examples for the use of containers on your infrastructure (if possible please provide the url)?
Do you have any restrictions or requirements (check for vulnerabilities / signatures) on containers allowed to run on the infrastructure?
How would you describe your level of competence with container technology?
How many people in your unit have this experience?
How did you learn to use containers?
What was the hardest step in implementing container technology?
Do you provide / support a container registry? If not, what do your users use?
Do you provide / support container orchestration or integration with a job scheduler?
What do users expect from you regarding containers?
Do you interact with Science IT consultants in your institution, if any? What do you work together on?
What do you see as the benefits of containers?
What do you think about Containers on HPC and portability?
What do you see as the future of container technology?
What do you see as the biggest bottleneck in using containers?
By submitting this survey you agree to share your results with EnhanceR partners: HES-SO (LSDS), EPFL (SCITAS), SIB (Vital-IT), UNIBE (ScITS), FMI (Informatics), UNIBAS (sciCORE), UZH (S3IT), ETHZ (SIS).
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