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Docker vs. Virtual Machine

Jun 26, 2016
By Mark Harris
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Figure 2: While VMs encapsulate the entire OS and any applications, containers encapsulate individual applications and their dependencies for portable deployment, but share the same host OS between containers.

Figure 2: While VMs encapsulate the entire OS and any applications, containers encapsulate individual applications and their dependencies for portable deployment, but share the same host OS between containers.

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Mark is an NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer working on RAPIDS. Mark has over twenty years of experience developing software for GPUs, ranging from graphics and games, to physically-based simulation, to parallel algorithms and high-performance computing. While a Ph.D. student at The University of North Carolina he recognized a nascent trend and coined a name for it: GPGPU (General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units).
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