id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt g158bg28c5m Chao Zheng The Challenges of Scaling Up High-Throughput Workflow with Container Technology 2019 .txt text/plain 329 10 22 To containerize HTC workflows and scale them up on the cloud, I synthesize my experiences on using container technologies and develop a methodology that contains seven design factors: i) Isolation Granularity – the granularity of isolation should be determined by characteristics for target workloads; ii) Container Management – container runtimes must be adapted to the distributed environment, and the under-layer distributed systems best does the management of containers; iii) Im- age Management – a cooperated mechanism can help to speed up and improve the efficiency of image distribution in distributed environment; iv) Garbage Collection – timely garbage collection is necessary given the massive amount of intermediate data generated by the HTC workflow; v) Network Connection – excessive network connections should be avoided considering the plenty of small transmissions; vi) Resource Management – customized resource management mechanisms that fully consider the characteristics of the target workflow are required; vii) However, as most workflow systems are not liable for managing the task execution environment, HTC workflows are regularly limited in dedicated HTC facilities that have required settings. cache/g158bg28c5m.txt txt/g158bg28c5m.txt