The scope of this workshop is to better understand and improve user-defined, bring-your-own, isolated, and related software environments for HPC. The most well-known approaches are containers and virtualization, but anything to further these goals is welcome. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Container runtimes, virtual machines, and related technologies
• Portability and reproducibility
• Experience reports, at both applications and systems levels
• Exascale considerations
• HPC in the cloud and/or cloud in the HPC
• Hardware considerations, including GPUs, accelerators, and interconnects
• Security and trust models
• Image management, including distribution and archiving as well as registries
• In-situ visualization and/or analysis
• Debugging
• Workflows, including interaction between traditional jobs, non-traditional jobs, and services; checkpoint/restart; monitoring; and resource partitioning
• Orchestration, resource management, and scheduling
• Performance and scaling studies
• New interaction techniques such as web apps (Jupyter, RStudio, etc.) and DevOps