Jordi,
  this is not an answer to your question. However have you looked at
Singularity:
http://singularity.lbl.gov/



On 24 March 2017 at 08:54, Jordi Guitart <jordi.guit...@bsc.es> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Docker allows several containers running in the same host to share the
> same IPC namespace, thus they can share memory (see example here:
> https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/8211#issuecomment-56873448). I
> assume this could be used by OpenMPI to communicate MPI processes running
> in different Docker containers in the same host by using shared memory (sm
> or vader). However, I cannot make it work. I tried to force mpirun to use
> shared memory (--mca btl self, sm) but it complains that MPI processes
> running in other Docker containers are not reachable. It seems like OpenMPI
> cannot recognize that shared memory is available between containers. Has
> anybody any hint about how this could be worked out?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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