10.6084/m9.figshare.4763857.v1 Joshua Higgins Joshua Higgins Violeta Holmes Violeta Holmes Colin Venters Colin Venters VCC: A framework for building containerized reproducible cluster software environments figshare 2017 linux containers HPC docker parallel programming cluster singularity reproducibility Distributed and Grid Systems Distributed Computing not elsewhere classified Distributed Computing 2017-03-17 17:07:48 Software https://figshare.com/articles/software/VCC_A_framework_for_building_containerized_reproducible_cluster_software_environments/4763857 The Virtual Container Cluster is a framework for building containers that encapsulate parallel and cluster applications. It promotes a high degree of portability and offers easier reproducibility by shipping the application along with the foundation required to execute it - whether that be a batch cluster, big data processing framework, bioinformatics pipeline or any other execution model.