Modern scientific research challenges require new technologies, integrated tools, reusable
and complex experiments in distributed computing infrastructures. But above all, computing …

The common perception in both academic literature and industry today is that virtual
machines offer better security, whereas containers offer better performance. However, a …

This letter compares the performance of four different, popular simulation environments for
robotics and reinforcement learning (RL) through a series of benchmarks. The benchmarked …

Over the last decade, society and industries have undergone rapid digitization that is
expected to lead to the evolution of the cyber-physical continuum. End-to-end deterministic …

HPC centers are facing increasing demand for greater software flexibility to support faster
and more diverse innovation in computational scientific work. Containers, which use Linux …

In the last decade there has been an increasing interest and demand on the Internet of
Things (IoT) and its applications. But, when a high level of computing and/or real time …

A new level of factory automation demands processing vast amounts of data, complex
orchestration of cyber-physical systems, and coordination of computation as well as …

OS-level virtualization (containers) has become a popular alternative to hypervisor-based
virtualization. From a system-administration point-of-view, containers enable support for user …

Containers have become popular in HPC environments to improve the mobility of
applications and the delivery of user-supplied code. In this paper we evaluate Podman, an …

Creating online data repositories that follow Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and
Reusable (FAIR) principles has been a significant focus in the research community to …