Shrinkwrap Containers at CERN

Tim Shaffer attended the 2019 CVMFS Workshop and presented “ Shrinkwrap: Creating HPC Containers “, work done together with Nick Hazekamp.  Shrinkwrap is a tool that profiles applications using the CVMFS filesystem and generates a minimal container image with only the parts of the global filesystem that were actually used:


Since the LHC is currently shut down between runs, attendees were able to tour  the experiment hall and see the CMS detector up close!




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