As part of the LRZ AI Training Series, an online course, Introduction to Container Technology & Application to AI, will be organized by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 27 April 2026.
Since the introduction of Docker back in 2013, container technology has become the industry standard for software packaging, distribution, and deployment. Creating a container consists of bundling an application, its dependencies and runtime in a single unit that can later run independently of the underlying infrastructure. Unlike virtual machines, containers are lightweight and yield higher performance while providing greater versatility and interoperability. As containers provide an easy, safe, reliable, and scalable way to run applications and pipelines, they are an attractive candidate for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
The hands-on course will showcase the most enticing features and niceties offered by containers. It will explore their history and implementations and dive into actual and cutting edge-uses with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence tasks, reproducible biomedical pipelines, and automated workflows.
