Service containers » History » Version 1
Peter Amstutz, 02/04/2025 07:59 PM
| 1 | 1 | Peter Amstutz | h1. Service containers |
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| 3 | Concept: Containers launched via the Crunch infrastructure, but provide a network port that things can connect to. |
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| 5 | h2. Primary uses cases |
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| 7 | * Applications providing an API, where a bunch of data needs to be loaded into RAM before it can be used, queried, or computed on -- e.g. large language models, databases, function-as-a-service |
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| 8 | ** Makes sense when the time spent on any given query is much much smaller than the loading time |
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| 9 | * User facing web applications that enable the user to do work -- e.g. Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV), Jupyter notebooks |