Abstract

When simulation experiments grow in scale, a simulation environment providing appropriate computational resources is needed to produce results within a reasonable time. Containerization is a promising method for creating such a scalable environment. This method needs to be adapted to the simulation users’ demands and should be easy to use for a project. Therefore, we provide a concept for a container-based environment, supporting various simulation projects, that dynamically scales and adapts the simulation workload to the available hardware. The concept encapsulates the environment technologies and provides an access service to the user for defining and editing simulation experiments and retrieving results. We discuss requirements for combining simulation and containerization to support the transition to such a container-based simulation environment. As a result, we see an opportunity to enhance large-scale simulation experiments using container methods and identify areas for further research.