BACKGROUND AND AIM Altered glucose metabolism, oxidative stress, lipid levels and inflammatory markers are important risk factors in diabetes, cardiovascular, and many other diseases. Cocoa has been shown to exert antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. The aim of this study is twofold: to assess the effect of Cocoa on the lipid profile and peroxidation in addition to the inflammatory marker...

This paper investigates whether running applications in Docker would have a significant network I/O performance degradation. The underlying technologies behind Docker are explained and analyzed to look for any possible sources of performance degradation. Multiple measurements were performed in a certain setup while also took into account some options to optimize the performance i.e. CPU spinnin...

Genomic pipelines consist of several pieces of third party software and, because of their experimental nature, frequent changes and updates are commonly necessary thus raising serious deployment and reproducibility issues. Docker containers are emerging as a possible solution for many of these problems, as they allow the packaging of pipelines in an isolated and self-contained manner. This make...

Container technology has gained great popularity since containers could provide near-native performance in cloud environment. According to different design purposes and underlying implementations, containers could be classified into application containers (e.g., Docker) and system containers (e.g., LXC). The diversity of containers may lead to a confusing choice about which kind of container is...

Cloud computing is steadily growing and, as IaaS vendors have started to offer pay-as-you-go billing policies, it is fundamental to achieve as much elasticity as possible, avoiding over-provisioning that would imply higher costs. In this paper, we briefly analyse the orchestration characteristics of PaaSSOA, a proposed architecture already implemented for Jolie microservices, and Kubernetes, on...

We demonstrate the open-source Semantic Analytics Stack (SANSA), which can perform scalable analysis of large-scale knowledge graphs to facilitate applications such as link prediction, knowledge base completion and reasoning. The motivation behind this work lies in the lack of scalable methods for analytics which exploit expressive structures underlying semantically structured knowledge bases. ...

Container technologies such as Docker [1] are transforming the way distributed systems are deployed onto cloud platforms by providing a simple mechanism for packaging and isolating an application and its dependencies from the host machine on which it is running. The same ideas and technologies can be applied to computational science applications to obtain exceptional ease of installation and re...

By using fast back-end storage, performance benefits of a lightweight container platform can be leveraged with quick I/O response. Nevertheless, the performance of simultaneously executing multiple instances of same or different applications may vary significantly with the number of containers. The performance may also vary with the nature of applications because different applications can exhi...

In this work we describe the experiences of building and deploying containers using Docker and Shifter, respectively. We present basic benchmarking tests that show the performance portability of certain workflows as well as performance results from the deployment of widely used nontrivial scientific applications. Furthermore, we discuss the resulting workflows through use cases that cover the c...