A broad coalition of companies and users are joining forces to create the Open Container Project (OCP)/ This was announced at the DOCKERCON conference in San Francisio. The Open Container Project is chartered to establish common standards for software containers.
Several HPC-in-the-Cloud and Crowd computing initiatives, including The Ubercloud and Nerdalize, are already deploying Docker. Hence, having open standards around container technology could have a big impact on HPC.
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