Containers for HPC

Topics covered

Singularity can be viewed as the Docker for HPC, i.e., a Singularity image contains all the operating system/software components for your application  and can be deployed and run on HPC infrastructure, as well as on your own laptop.

Subjects:

• motivation: benefits of using images
• how to build images
• defining you own specification file
• tips and tricks
• images for shared memory applications
• images for distributed applications
• images as services
• deployment

Previous knowledge

Familiarity with HPC infrastructure and middleware