In this deck from 2018 Swiss HPC Conference, Christian Kniep from Docker Inc. presents: State of Containers and the Convergence of HPC and BigData. "This talk will recap the history of and what constitutes Linux Containers, before laying out how the technology is employed by various engines and what problems these engines have to solve. Afterward Christian will elaborate on why the advent of standards for images and runtimes moved the discussion from building and distributing containers to orchestrating containerized applications at scale. In conclusion attendees will get an update on how containers foster the convergence of Big Data and HPC workloads and the state of native HPC containers." Learn more: http://docker.com and http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2018/swiss-workshop/agenda.php Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter