2 papers
cs.DC2026
Seekable OCI: Lazy-Loading Container Images via Range-Request Indexing
James Thompson, Wayne Mesard, Jesse Butler +2
Container image pulling accounts for the majority of pod startup time in Kubernetes environments. Standard pull downloads the entire image before the container can start, even when…
cs.DC2026
Bounded-Memory Parallel Image Pulling for Large Container Images
Sri Saran Balaji Vellore Rajakumar, Henry Wang, Ankur Singh +1
AI/ML workloads increasingly run as containers, where a container image must be downloaded to the host before the workload can start. This cold image pull lands on the critical pat…