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Revision 1 (Peter Amstutz, 02/04/2025 07:59 PM) → Revision 2/14 (Peter Amstutz, 02/04/2025 08:09 PM)

h1. Service containers 

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

 Arvados epic: https://dev.arvados.org/issues/17207 

 h2. Primary uses cases 

 * Applications providing an API 
 ** 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 
 ** Also includes web applications that interact with an API (first bullet) 

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