Service containers¶

Concept: Containers launched via the Crunch infrastructure, but provide a network port that things can connect to.

Primary uses cases¶

• 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
  • Makes sense when the time spent on any given query is much much smaller than the loading time
• User facing web applications that enable the user to do work -- e.g. Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV), Jupyter notebooks