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Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me

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Standard Container Integration Format We are making progress in reproducibility by way of Linux Containers, and as a developer for Singularity I am throwing my latkes in the air! However, what is currently lacking is transparency and organization about what is inside containers. Right... Read more

Oranges Apart Rows upon rows, of choices to make! Tiny mountains of apple, orange and grape. The flurry of voices, and far cries around, “Only the best for sale! Not available year round!” The wafts of crisp peach, and then followed by... Read more

The Research Container Standard Containers, on the level of the operating system, are like houses. We carry an expectation that we find food in the kitchen, a bed in a bedroom, and toiletries in a bathroom. We can imagine a fresh Ubuntu image is... Read more

Multiprocessing for Faster Downloads Has this ever happened to you? Today I woke up and wanted to know if I could download a file faster. Specifically, this would be for the Singularity back end Python API that does the simple streaming of Docker layers... Read more